The milestone of 100 hours of debate on the pension reform was crossed Friday in the Assembly, but the examination of the ordinary bill aiming at establishing a universal scheme by distribution by points is still far from the record of the two texts having exceeded 150 hours of discussion since 1981, including the Fillon pension reform of 2003.
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For the second consecutive weekend, the deputies will sit on Saturday and Sunday, to discuss this text which has 65 articles and on which 41,000 amendments, overwhelmingly from the 17 elected representatives of La France insoumise, were tabled. At the current rate of 50 amendments studied per hour, it would still take some ... 600 hours to complete the reform.
Parliamentary break
Friday evening, the deputies began the examination of article 7 on the application of the universal system "to the insured persons who were subject to special retirement plans" (SNCF, RATP, IEG, Banque de France, Paris Opera… ). During the first twelve days, they adopted the general principles of the reform (article 1, voted after seven days), the transition from 42 plans to a single universal (art. 2), applicable "to insured persons covered by the general scheme , that is to say to all employees, both private and public ” (art. 3), but also to the self-employed (art. 4), employees and farmers (art. 5), “ civil servants, magistrates and soldiers ” (art. 6). Even by accelerating the pace, it is impossible that the examination of the ordinary bill, as well as that of its organic little brother on the financial balance, be completed this weekend for a adoption at first reading of the two texts next Tuesday , just before the parliamentary break due to municipal elections. Unless the government decides by then to use 49-3.