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In the corridors of the National Assembly and café tables where journalists and policy intersect, vibrate phones . The late morning messages announce a stormy day. At 101 University Street, the meeting of the PS group is stretched in February 17, the day of the vote Macron law. Manuel Valls is invited and it dramatizes the challenge to convince reluctant his own camp. It evokes an important law for France “in the current context” .
A vote is held. Thirty slingers will vote against. About twenty-five abstain. “At this stage, it does not pass” , grinds the Prime Minister to the exit before letting go: “It’s hard. But it is often hard. “
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After 82 hours of discussion in special commission, 111 hours of debate in public, the executive is still not sure to get the majority to vote this text River 200 articles. In uncertainty, as much safe than sorry. A Council of Ministers is organized urgently. Members of the government must indeed formally agree before the Prime Minister starts the 49-3. 30 to 13 hours, sitting with reporters, a minister is warned that he must go to the Elysee. “It’s not possible,” he loose the bailiff as he just explained to guests that the text would go with fifteen votes.
Some have speculated, others are busy
In the Assembly, television screens show the cars of members of the government to rush to the Presidency of the Republic. The hall of the Four columns is expectant, the speculation continues. Is the session of questions to the government canceled? Analyzes, they are already prepared.
“If the government has to resort to 49-3, it marks the end of the parenthesis opened by January 11th. The government could continue surfing this wave forever “, says Philippe Gosselin, UMP deputy of the Channel. Others are activated. The Socialist parliamentary Haute-Garonne, Christophe Borgel, specialist of elections and negotiations, is sent to the contact MPs to try to make final statements.
Revenues of the Elysee, government members settle on their benches. They strum on their mobile. Manuel Valls receives many small words, talks with Emmanuel Macron. After a question about the law, the economy minister welcomed the parliamentary work. UMP members will heckle, throw him “goodbye” when it disappears. Some “49-3″ jokers fuse. Mr. Borgel shows in the Chamber. It is a “no” nod.
Valls is the responsibility of the government
After a break in the meeting, Manuel Valls comes to the platform. “A majority exist on this text, but it is uncertain. I will not take any risks, I will not take responsibility for the rejection of a text that I consider essential to our economy, “ he says. For the first time since 2006 and the vote of the CPE (first employment contract) Dominique de Villepin, prime minister finds herself forced to engage the responsibility of the government using the 49-3. “We could be six five-vote majority, but we could not take the risk of losing one vote” , decrypts Mr. Borgel.
At the end of the session, the slingers assume. Laurent Baumel, Member of Indre-et-Loire, said he warned Saturday Emmanuel Macron that the day of the vote would be “explosive” “The Valls method reaches its limits. He does not talk enough with opponents from within and uses arguments from authority. The central problem is the gap between what we promised in 2012 and what we are doing today. In 2012, do you think I thought one day talk on Sunday the extension of the work, ‘more work for less pay? I do not even know who was Macron at the time. “ The deputy of Paris, Pascal Cherki, says he never wanted to ” censor the government but change its line “.
The ironic right. “All for three bus lines” , an elected smiled. Yet it has avoided the worst. Four UMP deputies had announced that they would vote in favor of the text. These members Nicolas Sarkozy’s party could tip the majority in favor of the law. The 49-3 gives him a wonderful opportunity to denounce a government “hung” , “powerless” forced to admit his “weakness”. “This shows the disarray and it is not reassuring for the French. The Government is facing a majority that is disintegrating and has to resort to the worst tools available to politicians “, critic Laurent Wauquiez, MP for Haute-Loire, before heading to a meeting of his group .
The president of UMP deputies, Christian Jacob, also announced that it will file, together with the UDI, a censure motion against the government, a possibility offered by 49-3. André Chassaigne, president of the Communist group of deputies of the Left Front, going room Four-column to explain that they will vote for this motion. Insufficient to bring down the government, but this is a new sling which could have done Mr. Valls
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