It's a funny situation. Questioned Wednesday morning by CNews, the president LR of the Senate flew to the aid of the deputies of the Republic on the march. Gérard Larcher defended the Macronist parliamentarians after the controversy over their refusal to extend the bereavement leave from five to twelve days following the death of a child. The fourth person in the state has questioned the responsibility of the executive. "The majority deputies voted what they were asked to vote," he said.
Gérard Larcher pointed out the attitude of Emmanuel Macron who asked the deputies to "show humanity" . The President of the Senate considered that these words were "a little offbeat" . "I think we have to be careful. I am not sure the members lacked humanity. They may have been too disciplined, " he said. Gérard Larcher thus denounces the role of the executive, which "obliges" the deputies of the majority "to vote on texts which are not completed, which are not ready" . "The best example is pension reform ," he said.
Larcher disapproves of the obstruction led by the rebels
The President of the Upper House still calls on the government to lift the fast-track procedure. "We have to give Parliament time ", he demanded. “ How to study an impact, without having the result of the funding conference? The text suffers from an original fault: we did not want to talk about age, and we turned around. Now we ask MPs to vote for a reform that makes 14% of GDP without knowing how the transitions will be managed. They are asked to vote in a tunnel, it is a lack of respect for Parliament, ”criticized the elected official of Rambouillet (Yvelines). “The deputies will vote on a text without knowing (what is inside). They just support what they are asked to vote, "he said.
However, Gérard Larcher said he was "not in favor of the obstruction ", however. "It is a form of weakening of the Parliament", he deplored, alluding to the strategy of parliamentary obstruction led by the deputies of La France Insoumise. By tabling more than 19,000 amendments, Jean-Luc Mélenchon's troops made the task impossible for the special commission, which did not have time to examine them all. Result: the text will return in its original form - that of the government - in public session on February 17. A first since the constitutional reform of 2008. For the occasion, the rebels intend to play the watch by representing all of their amendments. And adding new ones.
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