POLITICS - True parliamentary craftiness. During the night of Monday January 3 to Tuesday January 4, the opposition deputies succeeded in suspending the examination of the text relating to the vaccination pass, in fact upsetting the initial timetable planned by the government for the entry into force of its law Project.
How? By making a “procedural blow”, as government spokesman Gabriel Attal regretted this Tuesday morning, who castigated a “friendly irresponsibility” between the various right and left oppositions.
In reality, this maneuver has a name: the blow of the curtain. The technique is as follows for the opposition: to make the majority believe that it remains in the majority in the hemicycle, at the time of an important vote concerning the text under consideration, here therefore the vote on the continuation of the discussions after the normal closing time for debate, which is scheduled for midnight.
The Suite After This AdvertisementAnd when the vote is underway, come in numbers to, at the last moment, to overturn the plans of the majority. What we can actually observe in the sequence below, where we see the LR deputies disembarking massively.
