Elisabeth Borne announces that she no longer wants to use 49.3 outside of budgetary texts

“The method I set for the future is: no 49.3 outside of the financial texts”said Elisabeth Borne on Sunday March 26, in an interview with AFP. “Since the beginning of the legislature, 11 bills have been definitively adopted and 12 private bills. There has been recourse to 49.3 on three texts only” which are the budgetary texts for 2023, of which the pension reform is a part, recalled the Prime Minister.

Elisabeth Borne also expressed her wish to “put some appeasement” with the unions, saying to their “arrangement” to meet them on sites other than pensions. “We have to find the right path: are these bilateral meetings, an inter-union? We have to calm down. And we can resume work on all these sites” hardship, professional retraining, the relationship to work, said the head of government. During the week of April 3, it will receive parliamentary groups and political parties, including the opposition, as well as community representatives, with the aim of “to appease the country” and of “dialogue with all the actors on the method”.

Under the boos from the oppositionElisabeth Borne engaged, on March 16, the responsibility of her government on the pension reform. The executive has chosen as a vehicle for its text an amending social security financing bill (PLFRSS), considered to be a budgetary text. Article 49.3 of the Constitution allows the adoption of a text without a vote, but exposes the government to a motion of censure. Two motions were rejected on the text of the pensions, including one with 9 votes.