The debates ended Friday evening at midnight on Friday evening, without the deputies having been able to vote the text, nor even article 7, on the postponement of the legal age to 64 years.
by Mariama Darame and Jérémie Lamothe
What will these ten days remain when the pension reform had the Palais-Bourbon vacant? The debates in the National Assembly ended, in the most total confusion on Friday, February 17 at midnight, without vote on the social security financing bill or even on article 7, which provides for the postponement of the legal retirement age from 62 to 64 years.
Under the hoots of the new popular, ecological and social union (Nuts), the Minister of Labor, Olivier Dussopt, put an end to the discussions, in accordance with article 47 paragraph 1 of the Constitution which allows the government of Limit debates to twenty days in the National Assembly at first reading. The choice of this method will require senators to examine this text in fifteen days on February 28. A joint joint commission will then be summoned in mid-March to find a bicameral agreement, while the deadline for examination in Parliament is set for March 26.
Until the last minute, Friday evening, the passes of arms, often violent, crystallized between the elected officials on the left and Olivier Dussopt. In the past two weeks, two elected officials Insoumise (LFI)-Thomas Portes (Seine-Saint-Denis) and Aurélien Saintoule (Hauts-de-Seine)-were sanctioned for their behavior against the Minister of Labor. The first was excluded for fifteen days of session after an offensive tweet; The second received a reminder of order after having treated Mr. Dussopt as “impostor” and “assassin”.
“You insulted me for fifteen days. But no one has cracked and we are there before you for the reform,” heated the Minister of Labor, attacking elected officials “rebellious” who left The hemicycle. Before blaming, red of anger, “the 20,500 amendments deposited by the Nutpus [which] will have prevented our assembly from completing the examination of the text”. After 73 hours of debate, the deputies will only have adopted the introductory article and article 1, which provides for the end of the main special plans (RATP, electric companies and gas …).
“You Do not believe in democracy “
On midnight, the voice of the Minister of Labor struggled to cover the song of elected officials decided to express their dissatisfaction on the end of the debates. “We are here, we are here and if Macron does not want, we are there” they sang. While they descended the steps of the hemicycle, the elected officials of the presidential coalition, the Republicans (LR), the Libertés, Independent, Overseas and Territories (Liot) and the National Rally (RN) have risen to Sing the Marseillaise and in turn cover the protest refrain of the “rebellious”. “Basically, you do not believe in democracy. You mining it by transforming it into a circus,” attacked the Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne, targeting the “rebellious” during the examination of the Motion of Censorship of the RN, rejected in the Night from Friday to Saturday.
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