Pension reform: the right and the left denounce a “parliamentary fiasco”

3/3/2020, 7:36:17 PM

The opposition rejects the use of article 49-3 of the Constitution by the government, which it describes as "parliamentary LBD".

After Edouard Philippe's choice to use 49-3 on pension reform, the opposition reacted strongly on Tuesday in the Assembly, seeing in this constitutional tool a “parliamentary LBD ”, according to LFI deputy Adrien Quatennens, announcer of a “political Waterloo” , for the elected LR Damien Abad.

"What we reject is the haste and brutality of the method used, after a Council of Ministers which was to be devoted to the coronavirus, and this for reasons of pure political tactics" , denounced the president of the LR group in the Assembly Damien Abad defending the first motion of censure.

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In the gallery, for around thirty minutes, the chairman of the LR deputies pointed out the “cynicism” and the “amateurism” of the head of government, responsible in his eyes for “the stagnation of the debate” and a “fiasco unprecedented parliamentary ” . "By amateurism or by cynicism, you offered a boulevard to La France rebellious to allow it to apply its strategy of obstruction!",