Laura Laplaud with AFP
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09:10, June 01, 2023
The presidential camp won a stage victory. The deputies deleted Wednesday in committee the key article of a bill, tabled by the Liot group, repealing the decline in the retirement age to 64 years. The deputies of the left coalition Nupes ended up slamming the door of the Social Affairs Committee to criticize “manoeuvres”. The leader of the LFI group Mathilde Panot called for “maximum popular pressure on June 6”, during the day of mobilization organized by the unions.
“There was a vote, it’s democratic”
Reactions described as “staggering” by the President of the National Assembly, Yaël Braun-Pivet, guest of Europe Matin Thursday. “I’m going to take a very basic image for you: a child when he has lost at a board game, throws the board game on the floor, overturns the table and leaves the room screaming scandal. That’s a bit what happened on Wednesday”, she said at the microphone of Europe 1 before adding that a “vote, by public ballot, was very clear and rejected article 1. After this vote, it there was a scene of tumult, and that’s why it’s astounding because there was a vote, it’s democratic and we cry out for the denial of democracy. It’s incomprehensible, it’s very lie and it misleads the population”.
Elisabeth Borne also accused the opposition of lying to the French “by carrying, with the greatest demagogy, a text which everyone knows here, for good, that it would be censored by the Constitutional Council”.
“They are throwing oil on the fire”
The oppositions also denounced “scheming” to prevent a vote on June 8 in the hemicycle of the National Assembly. “Serious words” according to Yaël Braun-Pivet. “Everyone must realize that by using this type of vocabulary, they are throwing oil on the fire and it is dangerous. Dangerous for the country and national cohesion”, she said at the microphone of Europe 1.
“They filed thousands of filibuster subamendments”
The deputies voted narrowly, by 38 votes against 34, the deletion of the key article of this bill of the independent group Liot. Most of the elected LRs joined their voices to those of the majority during debates that looked like a pitched battle. “What happened was strict adherence to our rules, our regulations and therefore democracy. They lost a fair vote, everything was done by the book,” she said. slice.
“Once they lost the vote, they tabled not hundreds, but thousands of filibuster subamendments. 3,162 amendments were tabled in a matter of minutes. To do what? To make filibuster. Because if you discuss two minutes per amendment, which is very fast, you get to 105 hours of debate. Once they saw that they had lost the first vote, their objective was to prevent the vote. But that, we cannot let it happen and we cannot tolerate it”, concluded the President of the National Assembly.