“rebellious” maintain suspense on an examination of article 7 on postponement of legal age

The deputies have still not reached article 3 and they have until midnight on Friday to examine the text. The elected officials LFI deleted a thousand amendments in the evening of Thursday, an insufficient figure to allow the examination Friday of article 7.

by Mariama Darame and Jérémie Lamothe

A few hours before the end of the pension reform examination in the National Assembly, the deputies remain suspended from the intentions of rebellious France (LFI). Will the group led by Mathilde Panot withdraw its 3,000 remaining amendments before article 7 which provides for the postponement of the legal age from 62 to 64 years? Wishing to master the rhythm of the discussions to the end, the “rebellious” deleted a thousand amendments in the evening of Thursday, February 16.

A number which appears derisory in view of the mass of amendments remaining before the famous article 7. Especially since the deputies, who are only after article 2, have until Friday midnight to examine first Reading This amending social security financing bill. They could then debate the censorship motion deposited by the national rally. An attempt to overthrow the government which is unlikely to succeed, all the groups having announced their intention not to vote it.

“Remove them! People are waiting to be able to debate this article,” urged the text rapporteur, Stéphanie Rist (Renaissance) on Thursday evening, targeting the “rebellious”. “It is you who are on the maneuver,” added a few seconds before the end of the session La Républicains (LR) of the Orne, Véronique Louwagie. One of the “rebellious” leaders in the fight against pension reform, Hadrien Clouet (Haute-Garonne), delays and confirms that his group plans to “regularly remove some amendments” without giving up discuss “long careers and Falus forecasts of the government “, while” forcing Macronie to sit all the time “in the hemicycle. A three -band billiards which is far from guaranteeing the examination of article 7 during the eleven hours of discussion imparted, this Friday.

persistent divisions on the tactics

The “rebellious” strategy is difficult to understand for its partners in the new Ecological and Social People’s Union (Nuts). To precipitate the examination then a vote in the National Assembly on the decline of legal age at 64 years as claims in particular the inter -union, the socialists, the environmentalists and the communists withdrew, between Wednesday and Thursday , most of their amendments before article 7. A decision made so that “the majority is at the foot of the wall so that we can debate” the age measurement, said the deputy before the National Assembly Thursday morning Communist of Seine-Maritime Sébastien Jumel.

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