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The text on the pension reform returns to parliamentarians. This Tuesday, it is the turn of the senators to examine the bill, ten days after heated debates in the Assembly. The reform indeed arrives at the Luxembourg Palace for a first examination in committee. The senators will then meet on Thursday for the kick-off of the debates in the hemicycle. And the majority on the right, in favor of postponing the starting age to 64, intends to complete the government’s copy.
Deprived of a vote in the Assembly by the obstruction that it imputes to the deputies of La France insoumise, the executive is counting on the Senate to confer democratic legitimacy on its reform. Gestures of openness have also multiplied in recent days with regard to the senatorial majority. “I hope that the Senate can enrich” the text “with what seems useful to it”, even declared Emmanuel Macron on Saturday evening in the spans of the Agricultural Show.
The winter drought, unprecedented in France, worries the executive. The Minister of Ecological Transition Christophe Béchu therefore brought together the basin coordinating prefects on Monday evening to call on them to issue water restriction orders “from now on”. The objective is to anticipate possible crisis situations during the summer.
It must be said that between January 21 and February 21, France did not experience any real rain. The aggregate rainfall total being less than 1 mm daily, i.e. for thirty-two days, the longest period “since the start of measurements in 1959”, according to Météo-France.
A page is turning, in pain, at the French Football Federation. As announced by our colleagues from The Team and RMC Sport, the president of the FFF, Noël Le Graët, should announce his resignation this Tuesday, during the executive committee of the body from 10 a.m.
Less than fifteen days after the final audit by the General Inspectorate for Education, Sport and Research (IGESR) on the dysfunctions at the Federation and the “behavioral excesses” of its president, this announcement would not be a surprise. It was even confirmed, half-word, by Jean-Michel Aulas, the president of Olympique Lyonnais and member of the Comex of 3F, Monday, at L’Equipe.