Declaration of intent or real commitment? The government does not want to use Article 49.3 of the Constitution, i.e. adoption without a vote, to get the National Assembly to approve its pension reform plan, the government spokesman said on Sunday. , Olivier Veran.
“We don’t want 49.3. We want to transform our relative majority into an absolute majority, ”he said after a meeting in Matignon with the head of government Elisabeth Borne and several ministers.
Since the vote on the text in the Senate this Saturday, the government of Elisabeth Borne has been hunting for the votes of the deputies who should in turn decide on the highly contested pension reform in the middle of next week, in the hope of avoid recourse to 49.3.