The debate on the text of the pension reform is stalling in the Assembly. Elisabeth Borne wants the opposition to withdraw superfluous amendments.
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DSince its arrival at the National Assembly, for examination, the text on pension reform has been the subject of lively debate, sometimes going beyond the democratic framework, and forcing Yaël Braunt-Pivet, the president of the hemicycle, to suspend the sessions. Elisabeth Borne asked Monday evening February 13, in an interview with AFP, that the “invectives” at the origin of these incidents cease. The Prime Minister also called for the “withdrawal” of the “obstruction” amendments to the bill.
“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.
I ask the oppositions to allow the examination of the text to progressElisabeth Borne
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”. “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.
READ ALSOPension reform: big outbreak of fever among the RepublicansRecalling 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”.
Nupes withdraws a thousand amendments
At the same time in the Assembly, the Green MPs announced through the voice of Sandrine Rousseau wanting to “withdraw amendments” to “move forward”.
The left-wing Nupes coalition announced on Monday evening that it was withdrawing “a thousand amendments” to move forward in the examination of pension reform, in response to Élisabeth Borne and her accusations of “obstruction”. The Nupes had started to remove amendments before the appeal of the Prime Minister but there were still more than 14,000 amendments on the counter.
READ ALSOWhat if we retired… whenever we wanted!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 posed on a ball with the effigy of Olivier Dussopt.