Elisabeth Borne asked Monday evening, in an interview with AFP, the “withdrawal” of the “obstruction” amendments on the pension reform project examined in the Assembly and the end of the “invectives” after a series of incidents in the hemicycle.
“We really want there to be a democratic debate on this text, that we can discuss argument against argument, project against project,” the Prime Minister told AFP. Elisabeth Borne demands “both a withdrawal of the amendments which have no other purpose than to obstruct and delay the progress of the text, and also that the debates be held on the substance and not in the invective”.
“The French deserve better”, insisted the head of government, calling for “not to multiply the amendments” which delay the progress of the text and “not to multiply the incidents”.
“Allow the examination of the text to progress”
“Many of the amendments are there simply to prevent the debate from moving forward and obviously I regret that. And I ask the oppositions to allow the examination of the text to progress, so that the discussions can take place, ”she added.
Recalling that the deputies were only considering article 2 and that there remained “thousands of amendments before the vote on the first part and the examination of article 7” on the postponement from the age of 62 to 64, she expressed the wish for “a debate where we understand the issues and we can also highlight the proposals of each other”.
At the same time in the Assembly, the Green deputies announced through the voice of Sandrine Rousseau wanting to “withdraw amendments” to “move forward”.
The debates got out of hand again on Monday when an LFI deputy, Aurélien Saintoul, called the Minister of Labor Olivier Dussopt “an assassin” in the Assembly Chamber, disrupting the examination of the pension reform project already slowed down by a rain of amendments, after an incident on Friday.
Suspension of the session and points of order, the Assembly regained its accents of the end of last week, with the exclusion for two weeks of another LFI, Thomas Portes, for a tweet where he had staged his foot placed on a balloon bearing the effigy of Mr. Dussopt.
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