For managers of employee organizations, the responsibility of “shameful” debates in the National Assembly goes as much to the deputies of rebellious France as to the government.
by Bertrand Bissuel
united against pension reform, the unions are also in the record they derive from the debate in the National Assembly on this text. For them, the show offered by the deputies, who ended in noise and fury during the night from Friday 17 to Saturday February 18, was, very often, “shameful”, according to Laurent Berger’s formula, the number one from the CFDT. Several confederal leaders say, explicitly or with covered words, that rebellious France (LFI) has contributed to this fiasco, but the responsibility of the government is also pointed out.
The disappointment of workers’ organizations is that the discussion in the hemicycle was truncated and stormy. Only two articles, out of the twenty which appear in the bill, could be examined. The most controversial provision – it is mentioned in article 7 -, which postpones the legal retirement age to 64 years, was not addressed, even though the unions had unanimously desired a vote.
Invited, Sunday, from BFM-TV, Philippe Martinez expressed his bitterness. In the eyes of the secretary general of the CGT, “there was a desire not to go to article 7 for reasons which are sometimes found on the benches of the National Assembly, in particular to rebellious France, of S ‘appropriate this social movement and to pass the trade union organizations in the background “.
” lost opportunity “
The question of whether he was angry, Mr. Martinez replied: “Of course.” “Political forces try to replace union organizations or try to put himself forward compared to trade union organizations and To those who [manifest], “he added. The CGT manager also deplored that the executive opts for an accelerated procedure, based on article 47.1 of the Constitution, which gives the possibility of limiting work at first reading to the National Assembly.
This double criticism, against the friends of Jean-Luc Mélenchon and the power in place, is shared by Cyril Chabanier, the president of the CFTC. “The LFI obstruction strategy did not allow to look at all the articles and, above all, it prevented the vote on article 7”, he regrets. At the same time, the leader of the Christian power station specifies that “there was no emergency justifying the application of article 47.1”. There are therefore “two officials” in this chaos, but the “distressing” course of the discussion in the session “returns to LFI”.
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