This Thursday, the deputies will vote (or not) various bills presented by the deputies of La France insoumise. As part of their parliamentary niche (a day reserved for their group) the elected deputies from the left have presented twelve texts that will be debated between nine and midnight. On the menu, a bill to constitutionalize abortion, the rise of the Smic to 1600 euros net and especially the ban on bullfighting.
Unless the debates drag on, preventing a vote on this text. In the context of a parliamentary niche, the regulations of the National Assembly provide for the session to close at midnight. If a text is still under discussion, the discussion is interrupted and postponed later.
However, representatives from RN and Renacimiento have submitted several hundred amendments to the rebel texts. While some propose simply removing or clarifying provisions, others are not meant to be voted on and are there to obstruct.
“Clear the passion of the people of the south”
In fact, each amendment can be defended for up to two minutes by the deputies who signed it. Submitting some thirty amendments to a text means guaranteeing up to one hour of speaking time in the chamber.
Of the 567 amendments submitted to the bill to ban bullfighting, 322 were signed by members of the RN. But almost half of them refer to the title of the text and were signed by the same deputy: Yoann Gillet.
The latter proposes replacing “abolishing bullfighting: one small step for the animal, one giant step for humanity” with “erasing bullfighting traditions”, “erasing the passion of the people of the south” or even “imposing the ideology of a man in bullfighting towns”.
On the Renaissance side, there are 75 amendments tabled. There too, with the same logic, we point to the title of the bill.
Patrick Vignal, in a slight to Aymeric Caron, bearer of the text, proposes replacing the title of the law “humanity” with “mosquito” or renaming the proposal “restrict the individual freedom of the French in matters of leisure.”
The bill on bullfighting is the one that has received the most amendments (567), ahead of abortion (237) or the increase in the minimum wage (111). Because it is placed after these two texts and a motion for a resolution on the creation of a commission of inquiry on the “Uber Files”, its adoption risks being delayed… or not taking place.
Source: BFM TV
