A full room. This Monday the Social Affairs Commission was filled. And rightly so, he is examining a larger text until Wednesday: that of the pension reform project. As expected, the exchanges quickly turned tense between supporters and detractors of the executive’s project.
“No one despise anyone in this commission please”, “Frankly, it is unbearable.” Fadila Khattabi, member of the majority and president of the social affairs commission, has called on several occasions for the good performance of the exchanges.
“I don’t want to hear you cry”
However, it is difficult to remain silent in this cramped room about such a sensitive text. Sébastien Jumel, communist deputy from Seine-Maritime, stepped forward. “You will see that the street makes you tremble,” warned the elected official, referring to the second inter-union mobilization scheduled for Tuesday. And to add:
“It is the street that will express itself and it is you who will withdraw your project.”
Determined to press, the parliamentarian even went so far as to mention power cuts. Which are foreseen by the CGT Energía for the permanence of the deputies favorable to the reform.
“If your hotlines are cut off for two or three hours, I don’t want to hear you cry,” he said.
“Follow the Law”
Renaissance elected officials took the opportunity to denounce the “irresponsibility” of the left. “You dream of insurrectional scenes, you dream of chaos, you dream that the National Assembly becomes a ZAD and that is unacceptable,” said Caroline Yadan, a deputy for Paris.
The National Meeting has also been invited to the dance. Opposed to the pension reform, the far-right formation, however, seeks to appear as a credible and responsible government force. Thus, the deputy of Loiret Thomas Ménagé deplored that the communists “call[ent] as a legislator to circumvent the law”.
After seven hours of discussions, only the first article on the disappearance of most special diets was validated in committee. If the debates were already tense, article 7 that fixes the raising of the legal age from 62 to 64 years should crystallize the tensions.
Source: BFM TV
