Audiovisual reform adopted: Rachida Dati triggers blocked vote in the Senate in the face of "resistance" from left-wing elected officials

Rachida Dati has decided to trigger the blocked vote to force through her unfair reform of public broadcasting. Article 44.3 allows the government to reduce the debate to a single vote on the amendments it has decided to retain.

"This is an anti-democratic coup!" chanted the left-wing senators before leaving the Senate chamber on Friday, July 11. After two days and a long night of debate , the proposed holding company bringing together France Télévisions, Radio France, and the INA was adopted. "The Republic is in danger," proclaimed Communist Senator Pierre Ouzoulias in response to this decision.

The left-wing senators, who had announced that they would fight relentlessly, have repeatedly suspended the session, raised points of order and quorum, and issued motions for preliminary rejection, and have argued and debated... to the point of announcing that they would refer the matter to the Constitutional Council if...