Nearly 20,000 amendments, including almost 13,000 from LFI, have been submitted for consideration of the pension reform in the National Assembly chamber since Monday, information obtained on Thursday from parliamentary sources.
This figure is below the 41,000 amendments submitted in 2020 during the previous pension reform attempt, and far from the 2006 record: 137,000 amendments during the GDF privatization debate.
While certain amendments could be deemed inadmissible, their sheer number makes it uncertain whether the text will be fully examined from February 6-17, before its transmission to the Senate. And it will not stop fueling the judgment on the obstruction that the presidential field is already doing on the left.
The Nupes coalition is particularly attacking article 7 dedicated to the postponement of the legal age of departure to 64 years.
400 Renaissance amendments, 80 for Horizons and Modem
In total, the LFI presented about 13,000 amendments, the ecologists 2,300, the socialists 1,400 and the communists 1,160. The green group wants, for example, to rename the text “bill against free time”.
The LRs – 1250 amendments – could play a decisive role and have high expectations in long races. They propose a contribution period of 43 years for all those who started working before the age of 21, compared to 44 years for some in the current reform. And they ask for a review clause for a first assessment of the effects of the reform in 2027.
The deputies of RN – 200 amendments – fight against the postponement of the age of majority and want to debate in particular the hardships and measures for the birth rate.
For the most part, Renaissance elected officials filed more than 400 amendments, Horizons and Modem 80 each.
Relative majority, and weakened in the National Assembly
On the left wing of Renaissance, Barbara Pompili and several elected officials ask to alleviate the effects of the reform for future retirees born between 1961 and 1963, “the first generations to suffer brutal increases in the contribution period.”
Others, like Fabrice Le Vigoureux, would like to allow early retirement for people who have at least eight quarters more than the required contribution period.
The MoDem also calls for a review clause in 2027 and measures for women.
The first government amendments are online. He intends to increase the health insurance spending target, following Emmanuel Macron’s announcements during his wishes to health players in early January.
End of debates on February 17 at midnight
Some 600 million euros are added to finance the extension of the remuneration of night work in health establishments, and 150 million are foreseen to accompany conventional negotiations with liberal health professionals. Another government amendment wants to validate additional contribution quarters for parents who have lost a baby before the age of four.
The timetable for examining pension reform is constrained by the government’s chosen legislative vehicle: an amending budget for Social Security (PLFSSR).
The exchanges in the chamber begin on Monday and must end on February 17 at midnight, so that the text can then go to the Senate.
After the parliamentary recess from February 20 to 26, the upper house dominated by the right will examine the text adopted by the National Assembly, or failing that, the initial text of the government, modified by the amendments that the Assembly will have had time to make. . vote and to which the executive is favorable.
Source: BFM TV
