In a tense atmosphere, the deputies rejected, Monday, a motion of preliminary rejection of the text, defended by LFI, and a referendum motion, carried by the RN.
by Mariama Darame and Jérémie Lamothe
From its beginnings, the debate on pension reform collided with the antagonisms of a fragmented hemicycle. It was not until 11 p.m. Monday, February 6, for the deputies to examine the first amendments out of the 16,500 deemed admissible to the bill which provides for the decline in the legal retirement age from 62 to 64 years of here at 2030.
Before that, it is in a chaotic atmosphere that the deputies of the presidential coalition and the Republicans (LR) rejected at the beginning of the evening a motion of rejection of the text, defended by rebellious France (LFI), then A referendum motion, carried by the National Rally (RN), after several hours of tense debate. After these setbacks, the oppositions nevertheless intensified their criticisms against the main reform of the second five -year term of Emmanuel Macron with the introductory article. “Rather than making this unjust and unnecessary reform of pensions, you better take care of the state of France,” lambasted the socialist vice-president of the National Assembly, Valérie Rabault, defending an amendment to suppression .
“Behind the figures, there are women and men (…). Average and popular classes who pay the high price of your accounting reform,” supported the LR deputy for Ardèche Fabrice Brun, a few minutes Before the end of the session, at midnight. The latter also voted, with his counterpart LR Ian Boucard (Territoire de Belfort), in favor of the motion of rejection of “rebellious”, illustrating the opposition to the reform of a part of the LR group despite the alliance Tied between the Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne, and the new president of the right party, Eric Ciotti, to achieve an absolute majority.
“Reformation or bankruptcy!”
A few hours earlier, it was under the hoots of the left and after being interrupted three times that the Minister of Labor, Olivier Dussopt, said he was “very proud” to defend a text “of equity and progress that distributes the effort in a fair manner “. Rejecting the reproaches linked to a “simple accounting reform”, the former socialist praised “a first step to be able to serenely think our relationship to work. With a single objective: full employment”. An inaudible argument for oppositions, which have continued to recall the suspicions of “favoritism” which weigh on the minister 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.
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