After an extraordinary Council of Ministers convened this morning and while the debate in the National Assembly is taking place this Thursday, March 16, the government has therefore announced that it will have recourse to article 49.3 of the Constitution to have the text adopted. . Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne will be the guest of the 8 p.m. newspaper on TF1 to explain this choice.
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The session in the National Assembly starts under boos when the announcement of the use of 49-3 by the government has just been made. LFI deputies hold up placards “ 64 years old is no “, the Marseillaise sounds. Yaël Braun-Pivet, the President of the National Assembly, interrupts the session.
” On the basis of article 49 paragraph 3 of the Constitution, I engage the responsibility of my government on the whole of the amending social security financing bill for 2023 “, announced Elisabeth Borne. MEPs will therefore not vote on this text. Emmanuel Macron and Élisabeth Borne have therefore chosen the passage in force.
The choice of 49-3 for the eleventh time
A Council of Ministers was convened urgently this morning to establish the strategy chosen to adopt this text. According to a participant in a final meeting of the presidential camp around Emmanuel Macron, “ it was considered that there were too many uncertainties about the vote because of the risk of a lack of majority. ” The president wanted to go to the vote, but the Prime Minister considered that because of the uncertainties, she should ask the President of the Republic to engage the responsibility of the government via the 49-3 added this participant.
For a few days, the macronists had indeed been busy to find out if they had a majority of deputies willing to vote in favor of the text, all the counts showing an extremely low margin of maneuver.
Already, Marine Le Pen has announced that she will file a motion of censure, believing that Elisabeth Borne cannot stay at Matignon. In the room of the Four Columns, the deputies marched to comment on this new parliamentary chapter. ” Parliament will have until the end been flouted, humiliated “, denounced the leader of the communist deputies, Fabien Roussel. The president of the LFI group, Mathilde Panot, spoke of a ” cross-partisan motion of no confidence “, but also a forthcoming referral to the Constitutional Council by the Nupes and a referendum of shared initiative” which makes it possible to block the reform for nine months “.
New mobilizations
” There will be new mobilizations “Against the pension reform, provides the secretary general of the CFDT, Laurent Berger, denouncing a “ democratic vice after the government’s decision.
Less than an hour after the announcement of the government’s choice, a procession of more than 1,500 young people headed for the National Assembly, shouting ” Hey Manu, Manu, 49.3 or not, your reform, we don’t want it “.