Everything is speeding up. On the night of this Wednesday, shortly before the end of the session in the National Assembly, the Nupes deputies announced that they were withdrawing a new round of amendments. With the hope, perhaps, of reaching article 7 of the pension reform. But the calendar is still tight: the debates resume at 9 in the morning this Thursday and will end at midnight on Friday.
Therefore, there are only 23 hours of examination of the bill, and several thousand more amendments on the agenda. According to data from the National Assembly website tonight, at least 4,891 have yet to be fully examined by deputies. More than 6,000 are being processed by Parliament services.
At the rate of two minutes of discussion for each amendment, the adoption of the entire text by the deputies seems to be excluded.
LFI deputies, “masters of time”
But the hope of a possible examination of article 7 is not entirely extinguished. A little more than 3300 amendments must be discussed before arriving at this article, according to the website of the Assembly… but 92% of them are authorship from an LFI deputy.
If La France insoumise decided to withdraw its 3,110 amendments still on the agenda before Article 7, only 246 amendments from the other parliamentary groups would remain. In the event that the other components of the Nupes (PS, EELV, PCF) did the same, only 96 would remain.
A number that is likely to change depending on the progress of the processing of the amendments by the Assembly services.
“Our amendments allow us to be the masters of time”, rejoiced the rebel Hadrien Clouet a few days ago with BFMTV.
Will they withdraw all their amendments? Is not safe. “We will remove it on the fly to be able to discuss,” Mathilde Panot assured before the start of the debates. “We are going to force them to discuss this reform,” she told government spokesman Oliver Véran on BFMTV.
A vote on Article 7 seems impossible
However, the announcement of a new withdrawal of amendments this Wednesday night changes the situation. “It really is too late and maybe too late”, however, fears Jean-Philippe Tanguy (RN). “There are two days of debate left, but you also have the amendments of the majority that also want to slow down the debates, since they do not want us to vote on the important articles”, he explains to the LCP microphone.
On Tuesday, when the debates resumed after the Questions to the Government, the deputies of the majority in fact multiplied the speeches and did not hesitate to lengthen the discussions, several members of the Nupes deplored.
Still, beyond a debate, a vote on Article 7 remains highly unlikely. In fact, the 6,000 amendments tabled on this article will not have time to be discussed.
But in the event of the withdrawal of the Nupes amendments and progress at “cruising speed of the debates”, the deputies could begin their examination as of this Thursday afternoon or Friday morning, before the examination of the motion of no confidence presented by the Rassemblement. national. They could then vote for or against amendments to delete the article, either for or against raising the legal retirement age to 64.
Source: BFM TV
