Pension reform, last act? On Thursday 16 March, parliamentarians voted on the text resulting from the compromise reached the day before in the Joint Committee (CMP). Emmanuel Macron and his Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne hope to obtain the validation of their bill by senators and deputies without using 49.3, but the suspense remains intact.
The text put together in a small committee will be examined from 9 am in the Senate, dominated by the right, where the favorable outcome of the vote is hardly in doubt. It is therefore mainly towards the National Assembly that all the spotlight will be turned from 15 p.m., as the outcome of the election is still uncertain.
The government is dependent on right-wing MPs from Les RĂ©publicains, who are divided and much more skeptical about reform than their fellow senators. To the point that the shadow still hangs over a recourse to the constitutional weapon of 49.3, which allows a text to pass without a vote unless a motion of censure is adopted.
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