This procedure allows the Minister of Culture to ask the Senate to “pronounce by a single vote on the whole text”, while the extraordinary session of Parliament ends this Friday.
Faced with the “obstruction” of the left, the Minister of Culture, Rachida Dati, sparked this Friday, July 11 in the Senate the procedure for the “blocked vote” on the bill reforming public audiovisual, in the hope of having the text adopted before the end of the extraordinary session, scheduled at midnight.
A little more than half an hour after the resumption of debates, Rachida Dati announced that the government asked the Senate “to decide by a single vote on the entire text”, “in application of article 44 paragraph 3 of the Constitution”.
This very rarely used procedure makes it possible to accelerate the debates by organizing only one vote, on the text and the amendments that the government chooses to keep.
“Weaken our public audiovisual service”
“After more than seven hours of debate, we were only able to debate 31 amendments on this text. We saw this morning (…) of obstruction, always obstruction and even obstruction,” she justified.
The debates have since been suspended.
“Rachida Dati refuses the debate on its reform of public audiovisual”, denounced the PS group on X. By this blocked vote, it “announces its real objective: weakening our audiovisual public service”, he added, recalling that the debate had already been able to take place in the assembly, due to a motion of rejection voted at the start of the discussions.