Questioned in the columns of the "Sunday newspaper", the Prime Minister assumes recourse to article 49-3 of the Constitution to have the pension reform project adopted without a vote. But, he assured, this decision "has nothing to do" with the current coronavirus crisis.

The decision angered the opposition, which has already announced the tabling of two censorship motions. Saturday, Edouard Philippe decided to engage the responsibility of the government to have the pension reform project adopted without a vote via article 49-3 of the Constitution. In the columns of the Sunday Journal , the Prime Minister returned to this appeal, and dismissed any criticism of the advisability of such an announcement in the midst of the coronavirus crisis. The use of 49-3 "has nothing to do with coronavirus", he says. "We would have made the same decision without the Coronavirus," he said again.