Alexis de la Fontaine // Photo credits: Emmanuel DUNAND / AFP
Faced with the Liot group’s bill, which aims to repeal the postponement of the retirement age to 64, the majority deputies are trying to brandish article 40 of the Constitution. The majority wonders about the best strategy to adopt to counter the text of the Liot deputies.
Slowly, but surely for the battle against pension reform. The Liot group hopes to repeal the law on June 8. Liot’s bill aims above all to abolish the decline in the retirement age to 64 years. The majority wonders how to counter this text. If they go to the vote, the Macronist deputies take the risk of losing.
Parliamentary filibuster?
To prevent the vote, the majority is betting everything on article 40 of the Constitution, deeming Liot’s bill financially inadmissible, despite a first rejection from the office of the National Assembly. “By repealing the provision, which was the postponement of the legal age from 62 to 64, Liot’s bill creates an additional burden, and not the least, for public finances, estimated at around 15 billion. Therefore, there is no ambiguity about inadmissibility”, explains Aurore Bergé, head of the Renaissance deputies.
However, it is up to the Chairman of the Finance Committee to judge whether the proposal is indeed unconstitutional. This president is none other than the rebellious Eric Coquerel, who should, without real suspense, validate the initiative of the Liot group. Faced with this impasse, the majority is planning other strategies, such as parliamentary obstruction against the will of the government, which has always denounced the opposition using this method.