Pension reform: from National Assembly to mobilization in street, decisive week

The deputies examine from Monday, February 6 in public session the central project of the second five -year term of Emmanuel Macron, on the eve of a new day of strikes and demonstrations, Tuesday.

by Mariama Darame and Jérémie Lamothe

This Monday, February 6, it is a time trial that engages in the National Assembly. By finding the hemicycle, at 4 p.m., the deputies will have ten days, not one more, to arrive at the vote of the pension reform. Will they succeed? Doubt is allowed in view of the 20,400 amendments tabled on this social security financing bill, of which 17,800 is from the ranks of the new Union, Ecological and Social Popular (Nuts), 1,100 of the Les Républicains Party (LR) and even 400 in Renaissance. A high sum of amendments reflecting the difficulties awaiting the government of Elisabeth Borne to bring together a majority on her project, which provides for the gap of the legal retirement age from 62 to 64 years by 2030.

In parallel with a new social mobilization scheduled for Tuesday, February 7, before that on Saturday 11, the first days of discussions could prove to be decisive. Will the presidential coalition long resist the strokes of opponents of the reform? “Everyone will gauge themselves in the first days,” anticipates the vice-president horizons of the National Assembly, Naïma Moutchou. “Everyone will try to push the other to the fault,” replies the leader of environmental deputies, Cyrielle Chatelain. Especially since the presidential camp will also have to deal with a Minister of Labor, Olivier Dussopt, weakened by suspicions of “favoritism” within the framework of a national financial prosecutor’s office on the award of a public market when he was mayor of Annonay (Ardèche), in 2017.

Before even studying Article 1 on the removal of the main special retirement plans (RATP, electric and gas industries, etc.), deputies must examine, unless last minute, last minute, The referendum motion of the National Rally (RN). The opportunity for the group led by Marine Le Pen to appear on the front of the stage through this proposal as a referendum while the extreme right struggled so far to make his voice heard next to the Nie Echo social anger and the Union Union front. If they refuse to vote the motion of the extreme right, the elected officials on the left will defend a motion of prior rejection of the text. Procedures which are both unlikely to succeed in the absence of the support of the Republicans.

The question of long careers

A few hours before the start of this parliamentary battle, the Prime Minister tried to defuse doubts and criticisms that cross part of her camp like her allies on the right. Without breaking with the erratic communication that surrounds this bill since its presentation on January 10. So far adamant, Elisabeth Borne has announced “we will move” after having “heard” LR deputies on the question of long careers, in an interview with JDD of 5 February.

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