“We are going to obstruct his reform”, warns Mathilde Panot. On the BFMTV set this Tuesday, the president of the La France insoumise group in the National Assembly debated with the government spokesman, Olivier Véran, and the head of the National Group, Jordan Bardella. And he warned the latter that the leftist opposition was going to lead the battle against the pension reform in the National Assembly.
The parliamentarian announces that her group will present “thousands” of amendments during the examination of the text.
“We will remove it on the fly to be able to discuss,” says Mathilde Panot, who does not want a debate of less than two weeks in the National Assembly. “We will force you to discuss this reform,” she warns.
“The right to defend our pensions”
Because the government could, depending on the attitude of the opposition, according to the executive, use various constitutional threads in its favor. And in particular article 47.1 of the Constitution, which makes it possible to considerably speed up the examination of a text, without a mandatory vote.
If Mathilde Panot does not consider, like the head of the EELV Marine Tondelier, that the National Assembly “is a Zone to defend” (ZAD), it does not “shock” her that there is “the right to defend our pensions”.
“You are the authoritarian in this story. You are the undemocratic one. You want eleven days to discuss the pension reform,” denounces the rebel deputy.
In 2019, during Emmanuel Macron’s first pension reform, LFI submitted 17,000 amendments. The obstruction was demanded and wanted by the parliamentarians of the left.
This year, if “thousands of amendments” are to be presented, the strategy should be different for the 74 rebel deputies. One of his elected officials on the front lines of pension reform, François Ruffin, advocates “resolute opposition” but without obstruction. “There will not be 1,000 amendments per deputy,” he said on Sunday.
Source: BFM TV
