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Pension reform: battle in sight in the Assembly

2023-02-05T19:31:16.651Z


The debates begin Monday, February 6 in the Assembly with a motion of prior rejection of LFI and a referendum motion of the National Rally.


The tone is set: the battle will be bitter and the outcome uncertain.

For its pension reform, which aims in particular to postpone the legal age to 64 and whose examination begins this Monday in the National Assembly, the government knows that nothing has yet been won.

For two weeks, the relative majority will have to face attacks that will arise from all sides.

And respond to a political equation that is complex to say the least.

While he thought he could easily recover the votes of the 62 Republican deputies, after an alliance concluded with LR on the basis of converging interests, the executive has come up against repeated pressure from certain right-wing parliamentarians in recent days.

This is why the Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne, announced in the

JDD

on Sunday that she had heard the demands of some of them on long careers.

By announcing in particular that those who started working between the ages of 20 and 21 will be able to retire at 63 and not at 64. Insufficient, several parliamentarians replied to him in the process.

A simple

"outstretched finger"

notably reprimanded the deputy LR Fabien Di Filippo on BFMTV, while the elected Lot Aurélien Pradié and some of his relatives clarified that in

"the current state"

, they would not support the reform. .

“I wish that those who started working at 21 were not the turkeys of the stuffing.

(…) It is now an amendment co-signed by all LR deputies.

If it is not repeated to the comma, I will oppose this reform

, “warned Pradié, in the

JDD

.

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“We feel a real fragility in our ranks” 

An opinion far from being unanimous on the right, where some relativize the capacity of influence of the young parliamentarian from Lot.

Doubt is nevertheless sown within the presidential troops.

How many LR deputies will ultimately vote for the reform?

And how many will actually oppose it?

Because in addition to the demands of certain elected Republicans, the executive must also face the reluctance of elected representatives of its own majority.

“We feel a real fragility in our ranks …”

, admits, worried, a macronist executive.

All this while a social anger, led by the unions, rumbles a little more each week in the street.

And that the minister on the bench for this reform, Olivier Dussopt (Labour), is weakened by an investigation by the national financial prosecutor's office suspecting him of favoritism.

“We are going to smoke them”

For their part, the elected officials of Nupes, reinflated by the numerous mobilizations, wish to monopolize the floor in the Hemicycle to

“reveal the ridiculousness and the injustice of this reform”

, says the Insoumis Antoine Léaument.

“The government is feverish… for two weeks we are going to go to the castagne and we are going to smoke them”

, rejoices in advance a Socialist deputy.

Yes, we are filibustering on the merits to respond to what is happening on the streets, because we must block this bill

Sandrine Rousseau, ecologist

On its own, for the examination in public session, the left alliance tabled nearly 18,000 amendments.

A number that

"does not give the impression that Nupes wants to have a real debate on pensions"

, denounced the Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne, in the

JDD

.

Before hoping that

“the oppositions will withdraw their amendments”

so that the discussion,

“project against project”,

can take place.

A parliamentary blockage denounced in the presidential camp but assumed by the left.

"Yes, we are filibustering on the merits to respond to what is happening in the street, because we must block this bill

," says environmentalist Sandrine Rousseau.

In the Hemicycle, the fight will be tough.

The sessions will be hectic and the nights short.

"It's going to be awful.

The incidents of the session, reminders of the rules, suspensions will multiply… It will hit H24 and we will come out of there rinsed”

, anticipates an elected Horizons.

The tone will be quickly set: the examination of the text will begin with a motion of preliminary rejection of the text defended by La France insoumise, then by a referendum motion which should, except last minute change, be presented by the National Rally.

The option of 49.3

Will the debates come to an end?

In view of the mass of amendments to be studied, many parliamentarians doubt it.

But the elected officials of the Nupes have already planned - if necessary - to withdraw in order to discuss article 7 on the legal age of retirement.

“If there is a vote on this question, I am sure that the government will be put in a minority”

, anticipates the deputy RN Laure Lavalette.

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In the event of difficulties, the government could in any case use article 49.3 of the Constitution, which would allow it to have this text adopted without the vote of parliamentarians.

But the option is, for the moment, not considered by the executive, promises the Prime Minister.

"In the current state, we're going straight there

," prognosticates a framework of the presidential camp.

Before recovering: "

But we can't... If we do that, it's going to be violent."

Source: lefigaro

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