The pension reform has not yet reached the Chamber of the National Assembly, which is already being hotly debated in parliamentary commission. Just like the protest movements around it.
The text, currently under review by the Social Affairs Committee of the Assembly, is the subject of several thousand amendments. The opportunity for the opposition to underline its hostility to the government’s text, and for some to defend in particular the fact of cutting off the electricity supply to a remaining representative of the majority.
“If your hotlines are cut off for 2 or 3 hours, I don’t want to hear you cry,” said PCF deputy Sébastien Jumel as boos and shouts rang out in the committee room.
“Don’t provoke”
The parliamentarian took advantage of his turn to speak to defend the special regime for workers in the electricity and gas sectors that will disappear if the pension reform is approved.
“If we come knocking on their door to explain the bad reform, they won’t come crying. I invite all the employees who are victims of this to come and discuss with the parliamentarians, to come to our offices and explain to them what is happening here in committee, and to do it in a way of social democracy, active, dynamic and interactive, of front,” he called.
“You cut off the juice for two hours a day, when you cut off the juice of the precarious energy, it is not a sea to drink,” continued the PCF deputy.
“Please, don’t provoke, it’s unbearable,” replied the president of the social affairs commission, Fadila Khattabi. “I am going to put the church in the middle of the town again, and if you will allow me with a touch of humor, I would even say the mosque in the middle of the bled, in the middle of the douar…”
“You give a bad image”
“Frankly, when we have this kind of intervention where we are provocative and get lectured about ‘you don’t like public service,’ no. You ask the questions and the answers, it’s unbearable,” added Fadila Khattabi. “President, I prefer the school to be in the middle of the town,” replied Sébastien Jumel.
“It is still incredible to be a legislator and ask that we not respect the law,” denounced the deputy RN Thomas Ménagé, also present in the commission. “It’s really sad, you give a bad image and I think the voters will tell you.”
“We in the National Group, although we support this special regime, we are not calling for blackmail and putting pressure on elected officials,” he said, “you cannot support this blackmail […] It’s undemocratic.”
“We are going to bring anger to this commission”
The deputy of the PCF, Sébastien Jumel, kept his words a few minutes later: “I confirm that the idea that those who have fur coats can be deprived of 2 or 3 hours of electricity during the day prevents me from sleeping less.”
“We are going to put the anger in this commission. We are going to push them until they retire, ”she finally concluded him.
Source: BFM TV
