Like the party vice-president, Aurélien Pradié, a dozen LR deputies reserves the right not to vote the text, despite the agreement between their training and the government.
by Alexandre Pedro
Some assure the hand on the heart to be against it, others fix red lines or hesitate before seeing the final text after amendments. But all of them have in common to make a dissonant voice heard within the group Les Républicains (LR) in the National Assembly, whose support must avoid an embarrassing use of a 49.3 on pension reform.
Expected and essential for the government, will the forty voices required to reach the absolute majority will fall as a mature fruit? Yes, in theory, despite the thirteen right -wing elected officials ready not to vote the text as it is, according to the Sunday Journal. Eric Ciotti and Olivier Marleix think they are holding their troops, but the party president and that of the group in the National Assembly know that parliamentary practice sometimes reserves surprises, especially in a collective of 62 deputies “characterized by individuals who have their freedom of voting, which is both our strength and our weakness, “sums up Stéphane Viry, deputy for the Vosges.
Designated to be one of the two group speakers on the text during its passage in committee, from January 30 – before its exam in public session, scheduled for February 6 -, Mr. Viry belongs to the clan of the clan of hesitant, more numerous than that of the “nonistes” assumed for the moment. “I will deposit amendments and try to move the reform during parliamentary work,” he says. I will not bind my hands even before the arrival of the project in committee or in the hemicycle. I am at the base A deputy for the opposition. “
The awakening of the social right
Be in the opposition but walking with the majority on such a sensitive and criticized text, the big gap requires too much flexibility from some. “Today, the reform of Elisabeth Borne as it is presented, it is no, warns Pierre Cordier, apparent deputy LR of the Ardennes. Every five or six years, you have an Eric Woerth or a Marisol Touraine for To say to you “With my reform, you are quiet for thirty or forty years”. At this rate, we can push to 67, 70 years and people will die at work. “
To believe that the text proposed by the Prime Minister electrifies social fiber among some LRs and revives the nostalgia for the flights of Philippe Séguin. Too young for having attended the former president of the National Assembly, Maxime Minot (35) also opposed in principle to the postponement of the legal retirement age at 64 years. “We should talk about annuities and that’s it. The person who started working early, if he made 43 annuities, I don’t see why he would be asked to work longer.” The one who started to contribute at 19 as a caregiver is not said “closed to abstention if the debates are advancing in the right direction on taking into account long careers”.
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