Article 47 of the Constitution offers Parliament a most of seventy days to resolve on the PLF. The textual content having been tabled on October 14, this units the ultimatum for December 23 at midnight.
This leaves a bit time, after the senators’ examination, to discover a compromise between the Assembly and the Senate inside a joint joint committee, then to resubmit the textual content to the 2 chambers for a last vote.
If the parliamentary course of couldn’t result in the adoption of a textual content, the federal government may proceed by ordinance or resort to a particular invoice.
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