El Khomri law: 40 votes left missing for text vote – Le Figaro

SCAN THE POLICY – The rapporteur of the text Christophe Sirugue up on opening the parliamentary debate to convince even recalcitrant MPs PS. Otherwise, the 49.3 could be initiated by the executive.

At the end of a week marked by the radicalization of the mobilization against the law work, and on the eve of the presentation of the text to the national Assembly, the party seems bad start for the government. By the admission of the rapporteur Christophe Sirugue law, the majority is still far from assured left. In addition, initially expected right supports are out of date because of the concessions already granted by the executive. “ missing nearly 40 votes to vote for a majority vote the law ” concedes Monday morning the deputy PS of Saône-et-Loire, told Le Parisien.

He himself charged by the government to clear the leeway to make “this text acceptable” by the parliamentary majority, Christophe Sirugue does not mince his criticism against the Labour law and its introduction into the discussion public. He is counting on the parliamentary debate to try to clarify a final contentious issues “have been told that this law would facilitate dismissals, this is the original sin. This is part of the elements that I have to continue to explain in detail. ” Another doubt point to the rapporteur of the text business in referendum: “I am not convinced of the relevance of this measure,” he slice. Similarly for the taxation of CSD, a component that wants to see taken over by the social partners alone. “Legislating authoritarian forks as envisaged by the government, I say out of the question”, asserts the deputy.

However, the rapporteur of the law keeps still hope to convince some recalcitrant MPs . “Among the 40 missing votes, there are historic opponents within the PS group, which the slingers of twenty,” he analyzes. He himself prefers to speak “with dozens of opponents in good faith”, who still hesitate between abstention and rejection of the Labour Act for lack of “clarifications” on certain aspects of the text, he said. “It will not have escaped you that a number of socialists, 7-8% of the group (…) quibble two years now whenever he must make progress. They want to prevent us from moving forward, “fumed as such Bruno Le Roux, called on France Info. “We can have disagreements without ever staging them,” pleads the leader of the Socialists of the Assembly, which “remain hopeful.”

If the divisions persisted, it is ultimately the executive could terminate discussions through force, as already was the case on Macron law. “The government plans to take to pass the law 49.3,” says a government source quoted by Le Point on Monday, a hypothesis already advanced by Manuel Valls in March. This solution could arrange some hesitant deputies, according to the weekly, worried about having to take the El Khomri law with the approach of parliamentary elections in 2017. It remains the government until formal vote on 17 May to convince the Socialist MEPs.