The leader of the Socialist deputies Boris Vallaud asked Monday that the Wednesday meeting of parliamentarians responsible for finding a compromise on the pension reform be public, in order to be up to the “political moment”.
Seven deputies and seven senators, and as many alternates, will negotiate at the Palais Bourbon in a joint committee (CMP), behind closed doors as is customary. A report on the exchanges will then be published on the Assembly’s website, but with a delay of several hours or even days.
If the parliamentarians reach an agreement, which is probable, the text will be submitted to the vote on Thursday by the Senate and then by the Assembly, for its final adoption.
This week, our work will be particularly watched by our fellow citizens and by the media. Let us live up to their legitimate expectations in terms of publicity for parliamentary work and the political moment we are going through, wrote Mr. Vallaud, President of the Assembly Yal Braun-Pivet, in a letter communicated to the press.
While the pension reform rarely mobilizes millions of French men and women and all the trade union organizations against it, the quality of the parliamentary deliberation on this bill is notoriously insufficient, considers the group boss, who recalls the constrained deadlines and the use of a single vote in the Senate at the end of last week at first reading.
In the name of the requirement of clarity, sincerity and transparency of parliamentary debates, he asks that the conference of the presidents of the Assembly decides Tuesday of the publicity of the works of the CMP Wednesday.
The president of the LFI group Mathilde Panot for her part indicated that if the request for publicity was refused, she undertook to make public in good time the proceedings and the content of the debates, on Twitter in particular. She will participate in the discussions since she is one of the members of the commission.
The request of the Socialists, however, has little chance of succeeding, one of the conditions for the success of the CMP being the serenity of the exchanges, which is not favored by publicity, in the current configuration of the Assembly.
Presidential camp and right have the hand in CMP, with respectively five and four holders each, including Olivier Marleix, boss of the LR deputies.