Work on the School Decree in the Senate is proceeding slowly, with a risk of a confidence vote.

The examination of the School decree in the Senate chamber is being postponed, likely by a week, compared to the scheduled calendar. Work is proceeding slowly in the Culture committee, where just under a hundred amendments have been voted on so far out of the 825 submitted in total.

Voting will continue throughout the week, starting tomorrow afternoon. It is not ruled out that, if the timeline extends further, the measure could go to the Chamber without a mandate to the rapporteur, with the government then requesting a confidence vote to speed up its approval.

The School Decree is a government measure that must be converted into law by November 29, including passage through the Chamber of Deputies for its second reading. It introduces controversial measures, including a cap on foreign students in classrooms for the next school year and a ban on full-face veils.

In the Senate, 90 amendments have been presented by the majority and over 700 by the center-left. The opposition has submitted three unified amendments that call, among other things, for the removal of the article establishing the cap on foreign students. The slow progress of committee work, with only about a hundred amendments examined so far, risks delaying the timeline and could push the government to resort to a vote of confidence to get the text approved.