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THE PALACE LETTER. The parliamentary obstruction of the Nupes could allow the majority to pass the text without a vote. And play the RN game.
By Sebastien Schneegans
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« 28 hours of debate, 28 hours of blocking. The projection of Renaissance deputy Sylvain Maillard sums up the bitter impression left by these three days of discussion of the pension reform in the Social Affairs Committee. At the end of the debates, Wednesday 1er February around 7 p.m., only two articles of the bill, which contains twenty, had been discussed. Worse, the commissioners had been able to examine “only” 430 amendments – 4,997 remained, including around 4,700 tabled by Nupes.
Thus it would certainly have taken a good ten days of additional work to finally be able to discuss article 7, which concerns the famous postponement of the legal retirement age from 62 to 64 years. Lack of time, as claimed by some Nupes officials, who o…