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.
Thursday will be crucial
This meeting with the Ministers of Economy Bruno Le Maire, Labor Olivier Dussopt, Public Accounts Gabriel Attal and Relations with Parliament Franck Riester, aimed to learn from the adoption of the text by the Senate, Saturday evening at first reading. “We must be able to confirm this positive vote of the senators”, indicated Olivier Véran.
A decisive week for this key reform of Emmanuel Macron’s second term is indeed opening. From Wednesday, a joint joint committee (CMP) bringing together senators and deputies will seek to develop a compromise text. If agreed, it will be submitted Thursday for final adoption in the Senate and then in the National Assembly, where the vote should be very tight.
The determination to go all the way
This suspense in the lower house of parliament has revived speculation about the government’s recourse to article 49.3 which allows adoption without a vote but exposes the executive to a motion of censure. “We will not give up on our pension reform,” Olivier Véran also declared to the press on Sunday.
“We are recording step by step all the signs that allow us to consider that we will be able to have our reform adopted,” he added.