Pensions: the National Assembly rejects the two motions of censure, the reform adopted

The National Assembly on Monday rejected the second motion of censure, tabled by RN deputies, which leads to the final adoption by Parliament of the pension reform project providing for a postponement of the legal age from 62 to 64 years. After the rejection by nine votes of a first cross-party motion, that of the far right only won 94 votes out of the 287 necessary. The left like the RN group have already announced referrals to the Constitutional Council, which will have to decide before the promulgation of the highly contested reform project.

Some 250 parliamentarians, mainly from the left, are also calling for a shared initiative referendum (RIP) to “affirm that the legal retirement age cannot be set beyond 62”.

The Nupes also chanted “resignation, resignation”, addressed to the ministers present, first and foremost Élisabeth Borne. The deputies must now vote on a second motion, tabled by the RN group, which has no chance of being adopted. The pension reform will then be considered as definitively adopted by Parliament.

The government is “dead in the eyes of the French”, says Mathilde Panot

The government is “already dead in the eyes of the French” after the vote rejecting the motion of censure by nine votes, said Monday the head of deputies LFI Mathilde Panot. “There will therefore only be nine votes missing from this motion of censure to bring down this government and its reform”, underlined the Insoumise, in a joint press briefing with its partners from Nupes. “Nine little voices, nothing is over in this country and we will continue until the end,” she insisted.

The leader of La France insoumise Jean-Luc Mélenchon calls for “going to popular censorship”, “in any place and in any circumstance”. “I hope that this popular censorship will be expressed massively, everywhere in all circumstances, and that it will allow us to obtain the withdrawal of the text”, declared Monday the leader of the rebellious, during a press point near the National Assembly. “Nine voices of difference are not enough to change our minds,” he added.

Marine Le Pen estimated Monday that Elisabeth Borne “must leave” or “the president must resign her” after the close vote, “a clear sanction and of the substance and form of the government”, according to the far-right leader. “There is what the result of the ballot says mathematically, (but) there is what it says politically: I think the President of the Republic should listen to what this ballot says politically”, added Marine Le Pen. His political group in the Assembly has tabled its own motion, which is being considered but has no chance of being adopted.