Pension reform: the repeal proposal is "obviously" inadmissible, according to Yaël Braun-Pivet

The president of the National Assembly Yaël Braun-Pivet judged Thursday that the bill carried by the independent parliamentary group Liot to repeal the pension reform was "obviously" inadmissible and asked the LFI president of the finance committee Eric Coquerel to reject it.

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It is up to the chairman of the finance committee which is seized of this question of article 40 to pronounce the inadmissibility" since "obviously the text of the law constitutes a burden for our public finances and therefore contravenes this article", said on Sud Radio the president of the Assembly.

I cannot conceive of him taking any decision other than inadmissibility.

Yaël Braun-Pivet, President of the National Assembly

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This is his mission and I hope that, like me, he will fully fulfill it," she added, before insisting: "I cannot conceive that he takes any other decision than inadmissibility." "I will respect at each stage the prerogatives of each other and indeed, in the hemicycle, it is I who is accountable for the application of Article 40," she also warned, in case Mr. Coquerel would not pronounce the inadmissibility. "My role is to uphold the law and institutions," she said.

Article 40 of the Constitution provides that proposals and amendments by parliamentarians shall not be admissible if they result in a decrease in revenue or an increase in public charges. "It will still be necessary to explain to me this logic which wants that the Bureau of the Assembly chaired by Yaël Braun-Pivet validates this bill including under Article 40 (art 89-1 of the Rules of Procedure) but then considers as certain that it would be up to me to invalidate it," replied immediately on Twitter Eric Coquerel.

Asked in real time about this answer, Ms. Braun-Pivet assured that she would "obviously" exchange with him but that "the relations of a president of the National Assembly with the president of the finance committee are not settled on your radio". The unions support Liot's proposal, which is due to be considered on June 8, two days after a fourteenth day of strikes and protests against pension reform.