Gabriel Attal prepares the ground.
A few days before the arrival of the pension reform in the Senate - February 28 in committee, March 2 in the hemicycle - the Minister of Public Accounts takes care of his interventions intended for parliamentarians.
"
To spend a lot of time in the Senate, there is a very great responsibility for senators, including for those who are in opposition to the government
", he declared Thursday, February 23, guest on France Info.
The Minister supports the contrast with the National Assembly all the more since the latter was only able to fully examine two articles.
The fault, in particular, with the strategy of the Insoumis not to withdraw their thousands of amendments to prevent the examination of article 7, concerning the decline in the legal age of departure.
Asked if the same scenario is likely to unfold in the Senate, Gabriel Attal replied: “
I don’t believe that at all.
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“
I note, and I am delighted, that each time I go to the Senate on the texts of laws, the senators will discuss the substance of the subjects examined
”, he continued.
And to ensure that he does not see in the Upper House any “
obstruction maneuver as we saw in the National Assembly, with indeed La France insoumise and Nupes who did everything to block the debates.
»
Recently, the LFI Political Council called on the “
Nupes senators
” to “
do everything to prevent
” the adoption of the reform.
For his part, the leader of the Socialist senators, Patrick Kanner, has already promised that the postponement of the legal age would be well debated and put to the vote.