The text of the repeal of retirement at 64, carried by the parliamentary group Liot (Freedoms, Independents, Overseas and Territories) is to be studied on 8th June next in the hemicycle. The president of this group, Bertrand Pancher, assures in Le Point that he will, whatever happens, seize the Constitutional Council that day.
"We want Article 24 of the Constitution, which states that Parliament votes the law, to be respected," he said. "We will seize the Constitutional Council," abounds on France 3 this Sunday Charles de Courson, deputy Liot and figure of protest against the reform.
'Denial of democracy'
In committee this week, the majority should indeed unsurprisingly draw again its main weapon to block: Article 40 of the Constitution. The latter provides that the initiatives of parliamentarians are not admissible if they lead to an increase in public burdens.
An approach that Charles de Courson deplores: "in a democracy it is not normal that we prevent a majority that was against this text from expressing itself and that we vote this text with 49.3". He speaks of "denial of democracy". "The deputies did not vote for the pension reform and the senators voted a law that included legislative riders annulled by the Constitutional Council," Bertrand Pancher also said.
The bill carried by the independent group Liot maintains the flame of opponents of the reform promulgated in mid-April. A new day of mobilization is planned for June 6. The presidential camp wants at all costs to prevent this proposal from flourishing, and as of Wednesday, in the Social Affairs Committee, it plans to empty it of its substance.
There would then remain the decisive stage of 8th June in session, where the balance of power looks more favourable to the oppositions than in committee... if there is a vote.
