The National Assembly resumes this Monday afternoon the tumultuous review of the pension reform, under pressure from the street and from the unions, which agitate the threat of a “paralyzed France” as of March 7.
The debates resume at 4:00 p.m. at the Palais-Bourbon, after a slow first week shaken by invective and outbursts of tension in the chamber, even going so far as to exclude a rebel deputy for two weeks for a controversial tweet about the Labor Minister Olivier. Dussopt, bringer of reform.
clogging “shit”
The discussions will end on Friday at midnight in the first reading, whether or not the deputies have finished examining the bill, which will then go to the Senate. The debates will be punctuated, on Thursday, by a fifth day of action at the call of the inter-union. Drowned under the 15,800 remaining amendments, will the deputies reach at least article 7 on the postponement of the legal age of departure to 64 years?
This is what the unions are asking for. On Sunday, the CFDT general secretary, Laurent Berger, denounced on RTL the “crap” of the obstruction, pointing to La France insoumise at the origin of the vast majority of the amendments tabled. He also deplored the “unfortunate spectacle” of the Assembly, which “has nothing to do with the dignity of the street movement.”
On the mobilization side, the demonstration on Saturday, more familiar, attracted between 963,000 and 2.5 million protesters according to sources, and confirms the inter-union in its strategy. After the new day of action on Thursday, it raises the spectrum, if the Government and Parliament remain “deaf” to the demands, of a “paralyzed France” as of March 7, after the school holidays.
“Block”
“Paralyzing and blocking the country would be counterproductive,” the president of the Renaissance deputies, Aurore Bergé, reacted on BFMTV on Sunday, asking the unions to dialogue “beyond the pension reform on the issue of work, work “.
Because in retreats, everyone stays in their positions. The government spokesman, Olivier Véran, repeated this Sunday the line of the executive: “need” to postpone the legal age to 64 years and “listen” to reinforce the “senior index” system during parliamentary debates, in order to encourage companies to keep those over 55 in employment.
It is precisely on the employment of older employees that the deputies will resume their work on Monday, with a barrage of amendments in all fields. The senior index, “is decoration, but in the end it doesn’t change anything in philosophy,” says ecologist Sandrine Rousseau.
Jean-Luc Mélenchon offers unions “a new convergence”
The Nupes coalition then intends to defend its ways of “alternative financing” of pensions, with a new call to tax the “super profits” of the largest companies, a recurring debate in the Assembly since summer.
The presidential field only has a relative majority in the Assembly, but the first votes reassured the macronistas rather about the forces present in the chamber.
The left trusts in the resistance of the street to face the government. On Saturday night on his blog, the leader of the LFI, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, proposed to the unions “a new convergence” with “a call for a Saturday or Sunday in March to surround the mass action.”
The RN as “ideal son-in-law”
For her part, the leader of the RN deputies, Marine Le Pen, who did not call a demonstration, judged that after the mobilization on Saturday, “the executive (could not) continue to look the other way by refusing to listen to the French.” . In the presidential ranks, many deputies fear that the extreme right will take advantage of the image reflected in the chamber.
“Bordeaux left and the RN continues in its line of ideal son-in-law”, the risk that Marine Le Pen takes advantage of it and wins points in the 2027 perspective “terrifies many people”, points out a source Renaissance parliamentarian.
Source: BFM TV
