The obstruction, initiated in committee, will therefore continue into the Hemicycle.
Next Monday, when the pension reform project will be examined in public session in the National Assembly, the deputies will be able to take the measure of the 20 long days of debate that await them.
In total, no less than 20,508 amendments were tabled by the oppositions.
In particular the Nupes: 12,998 by LFI, 2,363 by EELV, 1,430 by the PS and 1,170 by the PCF.
Although significant, the final number is lower than in 2020, when parliamentarians had then tabled 40,290 amendments, including 37,000 by the Insoumis groups (then composed of 17 deputies against 75 today), socialist and communist.
Édouard Philippe, Prime Minister at the time and carrier of the pension reform, had ended up resorting to 49-3.
During its examination in committee, at the beginning of the week, the discussions skated to the point that the deputies could not go to the end of the text before its arrival in plenary session.
The members of the Social Affairs Committee, meeting since Monday, January 30, have completed their work with 4,997 remaining amendments, far from the controversial article 7 which provides for the lowering of the legal age to 64 years.
Faced with the obstruction in committee, the elected Renaissance, RN and LR were regularly annoyed by the "
blocking
" imposed by the Nupes.
A blockage that the oppositions on the left have clearly assumed: “
We are obstructing the substance of the most liberal articles to stop them and ensure that this reform is different
”, thus launched the ecologist Sandrine Rousseau.
The Macronist president of the commission, Fadila Khattabi (Renaissance) thus noted “
with real regret
”, during the last evening of the discussions, on February 1, that the entire text would not be examined, despite
“28 hours of debates”.