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Pensions: Nupes deputies withdraw many amendments to speed up the debates

2023-02-16T05:35:18.136Z


The debates in the National Assembly on Wednesday lingered at length on the left's funding tracks, presented as alternatives to age measurement.


The left-wing Nupes coalition decided on Wednesday evening to withdraw numerous amendments to the pension reform, with the stated objective of examining by the end of the week the decried article providing for the raising of the retirement age. 64 years old.

LFI withdrew

"more than a thousand"

amendments at the end of the evening and the Socialists

"90% of theirs"

, a parliamentary source told AFP.

"The objective is to vote, we hope as soon as possible, on this famous article 7"

, explained PS deputy Philippe Brun, judging that there was

"a possible majority in the hemicycle for vote against”

the age measure which crystallizes the opposition to the reform.

At the end of the session on Wednesday at midnight, however, there were still nearly 11,000 amendments on the counter in total, while the examination of the text at first reading must end on Friday at midnight in the Assembly.

"Moment of truth"

The debates on Wednesday lingered at length on the avenues for financing the left, presented as alternatives to age measurement.

The Assembly notably rejected amendments from the Nupes (LFI, PS, EELV, PCF) asking

"to restore and strengthen"

the wealth tax or to increase the CSG on capital, in order to free up new resources. for pensions.

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These amendments

“allow a certain moment of truth”

, quipped in the hemicycle the Minister of Public Accounts Gabriel Attal.

“You finally acknowledged there was a funding problem after denying it for months”

.

“No one here has denied the deficit”

to come,

“what we dispute is your catastrophic vision”

, retorted the ecologist deputy Marie-Charlotte Garin.

"There are other means than 64 years old"

to bring in new resources, added his colleague Eva Sas.

"You wanted to avoid this debate, we are imposing it on you today

," said Communist MP Pierre Dharréville, while Socialist leader Boris Vallaud criticized the government for preferring "a tax on life to a tax on the rich.

Motion of censure

"With you, it's the multiplication of breads, but we are not in Lourdes here"

, criticized for his part the Renaissance deputy Eric Alauzet, mocking like others in the presidential camp the proposals of the left.

The majority has also repeatedly targeted the group of Marine Le Pen (RN), which on Wednesday tabled a motion of censure.

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"It's your right"

to table a motion of censure, said Gabriel Attal, but

"you, there is no need to censure yourselves, you say nothing, you are silent, you have no proposal"

.

At the end of the session, the deputies adopted an amendment from the Renaissance group aimed at harmonizing the social system applicable to contractual termination benefits, in order to “

remove the incentive”

to resort to it before the legal retirement age.

The Nupes has several times asked for an extension of the debates beyond the limit scheduled for Friday at midnight, which makes a vote on Article 7 uncertain. 'Rebellious Louis Boyard.

Source: lefigaro

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