the government goes on a hunt for votes to avoid 49.3

The Senate adopted the pension reform by a large majority on Saturday March 12 at 11:30 p.m.: 195 for and 112 against. A first legislative success for the Minister of Labour, which would not have been possible without the right, the majority in the Senate. A crucial week is now ahead for the government. 14 deputies and senators will meet again on Wednesday March 13 to agree on a final text, then the reform will be submitted to the vote of the Senate and the National Assembly on Thursday, where the government still lacks about forty votes. Republicans to secure a comfortable majority.

Avoid 49.3

According to the latest counts from France Télévisions, 35 of them would be ready to vote for the reform, 25 would be opposed to it or would be undecided. In the afternoon of Sunday, Elisabeth Borne, the Prime Minister, summoned her ministers to Matignon. She wants to prepare for the hunt for votes and find a consensus in order to avoid recourse to article 49, ie adoption without a vote. “We don’t want 49.3”, assured Olivier Véran, the government spokesman. The executive would expose itself to a motion of censure which would rally all the opposition, and could lead to the fall of the government.