The President of France Emmanuel Macronhas called this Thursday a Extraordinary Council of Ministers to authorize the use of a constitutional instrument that will avoid putting the pension reform to a vote in the Gallic National Assembly. Thus, Macron will go ahead with his unpopular pension reform without subjecting it to a vote that would presumably have been decided against.
Macron chose to resort to the controversial article 49.3 of the Constitution and a Council of Ministers gave the go-ahead, several sources from the Executive have indicated, minutes before the start of the session in the National Assembly in which the Government has to activate this procedure.
Thus, the Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borneyou can refer to this article for prevent even a debate in the Lower Housealthough this instrument also opens the door for the opposition to table motions of censure against the Government.
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In fact, it has already happened several times during this legislature, with motions in which the leftist La França Insubmisa (LFI) and the far-right Agrupació Nacional have even added votes. However, the opposition would need new allies to overthrow the Executive.
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