Ophélie Artaud 10:57 a.m., March 12, 2023

The day after the adoption of the pension reform in the Senate, Bruno Retailleau was the guest of the "Grand Rendez-vous".

If he welcomed the vote on the text, he returned to the possibility of a forced passage of the reform next Thursday in the Assembly, via 49.3.

For him, if "49.3 is a brutal procedure, democracy is the application of the Constitution, it is not the power of the street."

195 votes for, 112 against.

This Saturday evening, the Senate adopted the text on pension reform, just hours after a seventh day of mobilization against the bill, which notably provides for a decline in the retirement age to 64 years.

From now on, the text must pass this Wednesday before a joint joint committee, before returning to the Senate on Thursday morning, then returning to the National Assembly on Thursday afternoon.

Guest of the Grand Rendez-vous d'Europe 1 / CNews / Les Échos, Bruno Retailleau, the president of the group Les Républicains au Sénat, was the guest of the Grand Rendez-vous this Sunday.

If he welcomed the adoption of the text by the senators, while criticizing the "attempts at obstruction from the left", the leader of the LRs in the Senate returned to the possibility of a forced passage of the text Thursday in the Assembly, through the use of 49.3.

While in the

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, the leader of the CFDT Laurent Berger claimed that the use of 49.3 to push through the pension reform would be "dangerous", for Bruno Retailleau, "the 49.3 is a brutal procedure, but democracy it is the application of the Constitution, it is not

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