Communist deputies announced Thursday morning to withdraw some 350 amendments to the pension reform project to be able to discuss the postponement of the legal age before the deadline for the examination on Friday evening, calling on all other parliamentarians to do the same. “Let each parliamentarian take his responsibilities”, about twenty hours from the end of the discussions in the Assembly on this hotly contested project, pleaded their spokesman Sébastien Jumel to the press.
Majority and government “want to circumvent the parliamentary debate” and avoid addressing article 7 on the postponement of the retirement age from 62 to 64, estimated his colleague Pierre Dharréville, judging that “the most effective decision” was the withdrawal of the amendments to expedite. Within the left alliance Nupes, there is “consensus on the fact that the heart (of the reform) must be debated” in the hemicycle, assured Sébastien Jumel, while tactical differences may have appeared.
The pace picks up
Some 4,000 to 5,000 amendments remain to be discussed before tackling Article 7, many of which come from the rebellious, who have already withdrawn hundreds of their proposals. The pace accelerated Thursday morning in the hemicycle, with left-wing elected officials who chose not to intervene on each amendment and a session president, Valérie Rabault (PS), who more strictly applied the regulations on catches of speech.
The left considered “incomprehensible” the device of long careers, with 43 or 44 years of contribution according to the age of entry into the world of work before 21 years. It’s “totally delusional, within six months, you take a year more or less, haphazardly. Do you intend to continue to play dice in people’s lives”, attacked the LFI Hadrien Clouet. “Long careers are in Article 8, the answers can be provided. This morning you have taken a good rhythm, you are a little less in the obstruction, we can get there”, replied the Minister of Accounts public Gabriel Attal.