The request for a referendum on pensions is unlikely to be adopted, only the motion of the RN going to be submitted to the vote of the Assembly, which provokes the ire of the left.
At the initiative of the Communists, the left deputies had filed their referendum motion on January 23, and the RN the following day.
Relying on the regulations of the National Assembly, the left alliance Nupes affirms that only its text could be put to the vote, on February 6, the first day of the debates in the hemicycle on the very controversial project of pension reform .
But the conference of presidents of the Assembly, in the absence of case law, decided on Tuesday to draw lots, in which the RN group led by Marine Le Pen emerged as the winner.
What has just happened is unprecedented and truly scandalous, denounced the presidents of the left-wing groups in a joint letter to the president of the Assembly Yal Braun-Pivet, elected from the Macronist Renaissance party.
The mere fact that a draw was proposed to decide between the two referendum motions is an arbitrary decision that is not based on any provision, they argue.
Cancellation They believe that the left motion should have been the only one retained and ask for the draw to be cancelled.
In a letter consulted by AFP, Yal Braun-Pivet opposed them on Tuesday evening in a plea of inadmissibility, stressing that in the absence of precise regulatory provisions and precedents, the conference of presidents was the only body able to set the applicable rules.
They choose an opposition of comfort, had denounced earlier the leader of the deputies La France insoumise Mathilde Panot in front of the press, noting that the Nupes motion had a chance of being adopted.
It is a democratic diversion, had abounded the boss of the communist group Andr Chassaigne, indicating that the left alliance was going to seek a common position concerning the motion of the RN.
Out of the question to vote for this far-right motion, has already warned the president of the environmental deputies Cyrielle Chatelain.
The Socialists acted that they would not participate in the vote: Once again the relative majority and the RN taken hand in hand in the jam jar, denounced their group president Boris Vallaud.
The RN motion must be put to the vote first, if all its signatories are present on February 6. If this were not the case, it would however be possible for the Nupes motion to be put to the vote, again with the need for all the signatories to be present.
Questioned by the press, Marine Le Pen affirmed that the rules had been applied. Lus Nupes may chafe at the RN’s luck in the draw, but against anyone else, she said.
We invite all opposition, without sectarianism, to vote for this text, said the RN on Twitter.
The boss of the independent group Liot Bertrand Pancher said for his part that he would vote for it.