MPs from the independent Liot group on Tuesday called on the presidential camp not to make “obstruction” in the National Assembly to prevent a vote on its proposal to repeal the pension reform, which is due to be considered on June 8 in the hemicycle. “We warn the government, the President of the Republic and the relative majority on the really grotesque and ridiculous nature of an obstruction”, launched in front of journalists Bertrand Pancher, the president of this group of 20 elected officials.
A proposal quickly examined
Composed of elected centrists, Corsican, overseas and socialist dissidents, Liot has chosen to put a bill to repeal the decline to 64 years of the legal retirement age on the menu of its ” parliamentary niche” of June 8, a day during which he can dictate the agenda of the public session. But “scalded cat fears cold water”, says Bertrand Pancher, fearing that the presidential camp will use all the weapons at its disposal to prevent a vote from taking place on this text, as it has already done by dragging out the debates during opposition “niches”, knowing that these days must necessarily end at midnight.
In addition to the repeal of the 64 years, the text of Liot proposes the meeting of a social conference to put flat the question of the financing of the pension system. “Our bill is very simple, it must normally be examined quickly, a few hours should be enough”, underlined Bertrand Pancher, convinced that the text can be adopted by the Assembly, thanks in particular to the votes of the LR deputies hostile to the reform. .
“Let’s get back to what a democracy is”
In the event of adoption, there would then remain the obstacle of the Senate for this bill, but “I do not see how the President of the Republic can not make sure to withdraw” his reform, estimated Bertrand Pancher. “What we are doing with this text is that for the first time the National Assembly will decide” on pension reform, pleaded MP Liot Charles de Courson: “let’s get back to what a democracy is” .
Within the majority, deputies do not hide their concern about the outcome of a vote. The leader of the Renaissance group, Aurore Bergé, once again called for the mobilization of her troops so as not to lack votes in the hemicycle on June 8, knowing that the text will only need a simple majority to be passed. adopted.