"It's not arbitrated": Rachida Dati's public broadcasting reform on hold

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On Thursday, July 10, Rachida Dati started her day as well as possible, with such bright sunshine and the swift adoption of the PLM law in the Assembly. Good for her! However, it ended a little less well, in a sort of grand evening and a first-class bogging down of her beloved public broadcasting reform in the Senate, with the (left-wing) opponents of the text having multiplied their maneuvers to slow down the debates.

The senators had decided to give the minister a square head. Success: only 27 amendments out of 330 were examined before the session was suspended, including the first after five hours of chaotic discussions. However, the parliamentary session theoretically ends this evening before a new one in September, even if the senatorial majority (right and center) plans to play extra time on this text, "perhaps Saturday, Sunday and the following days," relays