The annoyance begins to dawn among the unions. After four days of very heated exchanges in the National Assembly last week, discussions on the pension reform resume this Monday afternoon, but the deputies are not sure they will be able to examine the entire text by the end of the term, set for midnight on Friday. .
It must be said that La France Insoumise has tabled thousands of amendments, which must be debated in the Chamber. At the risk of not being able to study the famous article 7, which confirms the lowering of the retirement age to 64 years, to the chagrin of the unions mobilized against the reform.
“Maybe at some point we can suppress amendments,” suggested the number 1 of the CGT. “We want all parliamentarians to be able to talk about this.”
16,000 amendments to review in 5 days
The rebel group led by Mathilde Panot presented 13,000 amendments against the retirement age reform out of a total of 20,000. Il en reste un peu moins de 16,000 à examiner d’ici vendredi soir, date à laquelle le gouvernement transmittra le texte au Sénat, qu’il y ait vote ou non à l’Assemblée, en s’appuyant sur l’article 47.1 de the Constitution.
“We must not do that,” continued the CFDT general secretary, the day after a massive mobilization of opponents of the reform. “People on the street are responsible, they express disagreement, a rejection of 64 years, and we don’t debate this article in the National Assembly? It’s not possible”.
For now, the National Assembly has only approved the first article of the bill, which contains 20 in total. Suffice it to say that if La France insoumise does not review its strategy at the end of the week by withdrawing amendments, it is very unlikely that article 7 on 64 years will be examined.
“The debate could last two months”
In the ranks of La France Insoumise, we are assuming for the moment the strategy of returning the ball to the government’s court.
“You come to cry because the debate could last 2 months (studying all the amendments, editor’s note) while you ask the French to work for 2 more years,” LFI deputy Damien Maudet launched in the chamber.
The party also remembers asking the National Assembly headquarters to allow deputies to sit down on Saturday and Sunday to allow the debates to continue. Unsuccessfully.
Despite the criticism leveled at La France insoumise, the unions themselves seem to have recognized that the battle was being fought much more on the streets than in the National Assembly. After a fifth day of mobilization scheduled for Thursday, all the unions ask to “paralyze France” as of March 7, the date from which the text will reach the Senate. A first in French trade union history.
Source: BFM TV
