Gauthier Delomez
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6:47 p.m., February 18, 2023
A “fiasco”, “mess”: this is how each parliamentary group describes the end of the debates in the National Assembly on the pension reform, each rejecting the fault. Only the first two articles out of the 20 that make up the text could be fully examined in the hemicycle. At the heart of most of the criticism, the deputies of La France insoumise and the thousands of amendments they refused to withdraw, thus not allowing the examination of the other articles, and in particular the seventh on the age difference starting legal, within the allotted time.
A strategy denounced by André Chassaigne, the president of the communist group GDR-Nupes in the National Assembly. “I am quite frustrated that the debate did not take place. We had proposals to make, substantive amendments, and we see that we have smashed against this wall of interventions”, he analyzes In Europe Evening Weekend.
“Discuss and find out if we can continue to work together”
Incomprehensible withdrawal of the CPF amendments. Why rush to Article 7? The rest of the law doesn’t count? Eager to get beaten?
— Jean-Luc Melenchon (@JLMelenchon) February 16, 2023
However, the deputy of the fifth constituency of Puy-de-Dôme prefers not to bring everything back to the former third man in the presidential election. For him, if the question of an exit from Nupes does not arise, the strategy must be reviewed. “It’s about developing what I call ‘the union of leftist and ecological forces'”, he says.
And to explain his words: “This means that we can rely on the popular expectation of a transformation of society, but in no case do I consider that a single group should crush all the others”. “I look at the effectiveness of our fight”, continues the politician, “and effectiveness requires a gathering of left-wing and ecological forces. Otherwise, we cannot move anything”, estimates André Chassaigne, recalling that LFI is in the majority in this union as a result of its leader’s score in the last presidential election.
“We have to put things on the table,” adds the deputy. “We will have to discuss and find out if it is still possible to work together, which I would like, provided that we can free ourselves from the excessive weight of a group which today crushes the others”, launches- he, hoping that everything will be done in the future to block Emmanuel Macron’s flagship reform in the National Assembly.