Pension reform: the government faced with motions of censure


Alexis Delafontaine

The authorities expect excesses after the debate around the motions of censure which will begin at 4 p.m. in the National Assembly. This is the continuation of the procedure linked to 49-3. Two texts will be put to the vote this afternoon, one from the National Rally and the other transpartisan, presented by the independent group Liot and co-signed by elected officials from Nupes.

Liot: Liberties, independents, Overseas and territories. This transpartisan group of 20 deputies should give a few cold sweats to the government of Elisabeth Borne, after having tabled a motion of censure which will be voted on Monday, March 20. However, the challenge could be complicated because Éric Ciotti, the boss of the Republicans, has announced that the LR deputies will not vote for this motion of censure.

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So, to continue the fight, 252 left-wing parliamentarians tabled a shared initiative referendum. The communist deputy Stéphane Peu, at the origin of this referendum of shared initiative, justifies himself: “To have an additional string to the bow of social mobilizations against the pension reform. That is the first objective, to delay the promulgation and obtain the 4.8 million signatures which will oblige the President of the Republic to seek the opinion of the French people by way of referendum”.

The ambition will be to save time. Indeed, if the shared initiative referendum is validated by the Constitutional Council, then the pension reform will be blocked for nine months. A significant delay which could allow the opposition to obtain a maximum of signatures, but above all to gain time to try to amplify social protest and hope to make the government back down.



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