For the sake of "consistency", LR deputies Aurélien Pradié and Pierre-Henri Dumont will vote on the bill tabled by the independent group Liot in the National Assembly, which aims to repeal the pension reform. A "coherent" choice, believes the first, elected from Lot, who, during parliamentary debates, has repeatedly expressed his opposition to the government's text. Going so far as to vote the transpartisan motion of censure to bring down the government.
"We are not a barracks"
The boss of LR, Eric Ciotti, indicates that "most of the leaders of our group" will also be "consistent" with the official line of the party: "I supported this pension reform, I assume it. It was necessary, even indispensable, in the face of the gravity of the situation in our country."
However, he continues at the microphone of France Inter, on the text of the Liot group, "we will have a freedom of vote" within the group in the Assembly. "This is the rule here," says Eric Ciotti, aware of the "individual positions expressed in the past". No sanction or exclusion for right-wing elected representatives who would therefore be tempted to join their voice. "We are not a barracks: we will try to convince," insists Eric Ciotti, while specifying to be "convinced that this procedure will not go to the end of the legislative process".