The Nuts, the national rally and the Republicans massively rejected in the evening of Tuesday article 2 of the text.
by Mariama Darame and Jérémie Lamothe
For the government of Elisabeth Borne, this is a first cut to her pension reform. Tuesday, February 14, the deputies rejected, shortly before midnight, article 2, creating a “senior index” in companies, by 256 votes against, 203 for. A first defeat also for elected officials of the presidential coalition on this text, the main measure of which is the decline in the legal retirement age from 62 to 64 years.
Beyond the expected oppositions of the new popular, ecological and social union (Nuts) and the National Rally (RN) to this “senior index”, The result of the ballot tilted due to the vote against of 38 deputies Les Républicains (LR) – out of 61. Among them, the group’s president, Olivier Marleix. All dispute the usefulness and even the constitutionality of the introduction of such a tool through a social security financing bill.
From the presidential camp side, the elected Horizons Thierry Benoit (Ille-et-Vilaine) and Yannick Favennec (Mayenne), who had publicly criticized the reform, abstained on this measure which forced companies to publish each year Monitoring indicators relating to the employment of their senior employees.
At the announcement of the result of the ballot, the president of the Renaissance group, Aurore Bergé, incredulous, made a recount of the votes of her camp, convinced of an electronic failure in the votes. Under the applause nourished by the benches of the left, the right and the extreme right, the “rebellious” deputies praised this victory by singing an emblematic song of social mobilizations: “We are there. Even if Macron does not want , we are here. “” Do you think you are unacceptable, “deplored, from the perch, the president of the National Assembly, Yaël Braun-Pivet.
Olivier Dussopt on the Defensive
“Tonight, the whole left and the FN [National Front, previous name of the National Rally] celebrate the fact of removing from the pension reform project the article which creates an index of the employment of seniors. Remove a new tool for the employment of the older ones, “lambasted the Minister of Labor, Olivier Dussopt, without mentioning the decisive voices of the LR group. “Macron, terminal, dussopt casting. (…) Macronie is at the abois,” Jubilee, for his part, the founder of La France Insoumise (LFI), Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
For the government, this setback comes after a day less tumultuous than the previous ones in the National Assembly, even if the main measures of its bill have once again been attacked in the hemicycle. On the defensive, the Minister of Labor, Olivier Dussopt, underwent an avalanche of questions from the oppositions, mainly on long careers and the minimum pension at 1,200 euros. “How many people who retire, or who are already retired, will see their pension increased to 1,200 euros?”, Tirelessly rehabilitated the elected officials of the Nuts, like the “rebellious” deputy from Seine -Saint-Denis Aurélie found.
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