Conclusion.
After more than eight hours of negotiations, the joint joint committee which brought together seven deputies and seven senators to discuss the various articles and amendments to the pension reform, reached an agreement.
Gathered behind closed doors in the room of the National Assembly's Social Affairs Committee, the parliamentarians discussed the "
hot
" points of the bill, and in particular those which sparked debates between the presidential camp and Les Républicains.
Long careers, the premium for mothers and the experimental senior CDI were widely mentioned by elected officials during the discussions.
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LIVE - Pension reform: kick-off of the joint committee
9 a.m.
The meeting begins with the speeches of the 28 parliamentarians present, incumbents and substitutes, while several documents are distributed to those present.
“
The comparison of the texts of the two chambers
"says a deputy.
The opportunity for deputies and senators to make known the positions of their group on the reform.
"Everyone is talking... A bit like a general discussion, but with all the parliamentarians giving their opinion... It's long," breathes an elected official on the spot.
Olivier Marleix, president of the LR group in the National Assembly, puts two demands on the table: a review clause on the senior CDI and hardship - an opinion shared by LR senators -, and a gesture on long careers with a smoothing of 43 annuities for all people who started working before the age of 21, with the support of the senatorial majority.
Consensus on long careers
10:30 a.m.
A first consensus quickly emerges between the Macronist majority and the right… on long careers.
The Marleix amendment, presented a little earlier by the president of the LR group in person, seems to be on the way to being retained.
“And not the Pradié amendment, eh, it is very important to specify it.
It must be very clear, ”insists a framework of the presidential camp.
While the past few days have been marked by numerous meetings and various telephone exchanges, LR and the Macronist troops have found a “
point of balance
” on this subject, which was held by a large part of the deputies on the right.
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11:15
a.m.
The session is suspended for the first time, after only two hours of discussions.
The deputies of the Nupes took the opportunity to organize a press briefing at the Salle des Quatre Colonnes.
This meeting, marked by the live-tweet of the Insoumis deputies Mathilde Panot and Hadrien Clouet and that of the ecologist Sandrine Rousseau, is an opportunity for the left to communicate widely on the discussions in the CMP.
And on his frank opposition to the reform carried out by the government.
“
It's little corridor shenanigans and big confusion for the French
”, notably loose the socialist deputy Boris Vallaud.
Meanwhile, other elected officials are getting impatient… The debates are likely to last a little longer than expected.
“
It will last 5/6 hours, since
“, jokes the deputy MoDem Philippe Vigier.
1 p.m.
The articles are voted on one after the other by the Macronist majority and Les Républicains.
“Well, all the right stuff is retained.
The text remains the same, but in addition we are ruining the family branch ”, regrets the deputy LFI Hadrien Clouet.
Before adding: “
We have just obtained the right to defend our amendments to the text!
".
A few minutes later, after clauses 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5, clause 6 carried.
The debates on the famous article 7, which formalizes the postponement of the legal retirement age to 64, begin.
MEPs take a short lunch break.
Article 7 adopted, the Nupes reports live on Google Doc
2:28 p.m.
Article 7 on the postponement of the legal retirement age to 64 is adopted.
"Shame.
Ten parliamentarians vote behind closed doors for two years for the entire population.
Don't forget: there are only ten of us... and there are millions of us!", Tweets the rebellious Mathilde Panot.
During this time, the deputies of the Nupes who take part in the discussions update in real time a Word document which they share with the journalists.
“
Obviously, this information is under embargo
”, specifies an ecologist.
From the start of the discussions, the President of the Assembly's Social Affairs Committee, Fadila Khattabi, had nevertheless warned: "
Our meeting is being held behind closed doors, I will inform the President if a member of this CMP does not
".
3:04 p.m.
Article 8 on long careers is adopted, responding to certain requests made by the LR group and Olivier Marleix.
The meeting drags on and certain tensions begin to appear, in particular between the macronist senator Xavier Iacovelli and the centrist Charles de Courson.
A few minutes later, a rare moment of calm and consensus.
The amendments of the socialist senator Laurence Rossignol concerning the reinforcement of the right to retirement of the mothers of family are adopted unanimously.
"
I am destabilized to agree with Madame Panot and Madame Rousseau
", even cowardly Olivier Marleix.
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4:30 p.m.
Clause 10 carried.
But the debates are slipping and taking longer than expected.
Nupes elected officials continue to defend their amendments.
“
They are trying to obstruct, but since they have not worked on the text and they are only on the form, it is difficult for them to achieve this
”, retorts Macronist senator Xavier Iacovelli.
“It's not filmed so they're doing less than usual.
They simply yelled at noon because they wanted a 'sandwich', loose RN deputy Thomas Ménagé.
5
p.m.
The debates are accelerating and the outcome is near.
The articles are adopted one after the other.
“
Agreement in sight
”, breath, all smiles, an elected macronist.
5:33 p.m.
The mixed parity committee is conclusive.
A large majority of deputies and senators agreed on the pension reform bill.
The hardest is yet to come, with a solemn vote, Thursday, in the Senate, then in the National Assembly.
