The Insoumi want to prolong the discussions. The deputies of La France Insoumise are virulently calling on the majority this Friday to expand the current debates in the National Assembly on the pension reform. They say in particular that they want to discuss article 7 of the project that provides for the postponement of the legal retirement age.
“Give up your vacation in Courchevel”, launches the deputy of Essonne Antoine Léaument.
Article 7 of the pension reform bill provides for postponing the start of the legal retirement age from 62 to 64 and crystallizes the opposition of the majority of French people to the reform. The debates on this reform project must end this Friday at midnight, with the activation by the executive of article 47.1 that allows limiting the examination of a text in Parliament to 50 days.
LFI accuses the majority of enjoying a “right to be lazy”
“You defend the value of work, but for you now it is the right to be lazy, because you are closing this weekend, you are in a hurry to go home”, replies the deputy for the Somme François Ruffin, adopting the same rhetoric as his colleague.
“You stick to French for two years and tomorrow you will be on the planes to put your chalets together,” he proclaims again.
These accusations are flatly rejected by the President of the National Assembly. “I specify that the calendar of the parliamentary session is set annually, that there are periods of suspension that are not vacation periods,” Yaël Braun-Pivet responded in the chamber to François Ruffin.
“We work in our constituencies. It would be really pointless to suggest otherwise,” she says.
Article 7 in sight
The Insoumis say they want to address several points that are being debated within the bill, including article 7. “Without a doubt, it is necessary to advocate again for a longer opening of sessions since we have to talk about pension funds, savings plans for retirement, shareholders, dividends”. , inequalities, women, long careers”, calls Haute-Garonne MP Hadrien Clouet.
“We still don’t understand in which direction you want to go,” he laments again.
Thousands of amendments tabled left
However, the prospect of being able to attend these exchanges looks increasingly bleak. Each side is responsible for these constantly postponed debates during these two weeks of heated debates.
On the one hand, the Insoumis accuse the majority of having resorted to article 47.1 and thus limit the duration of the debates, while on the other hand the majority implores the LFI to withdraw the thousands of amendments it has submitted and which slow down the discussions.
“I understand that the Supreme Leader has forbidden you [d’aller à l’article 7]”, addresses the MoDem deputy Philippe Vigier in reference to Jean-Luc Mélenchon, while the Hautes-Pyrénées deputy Benoît Mournet accuses the Insoumis of practicing an “anti-parliamentary blockade”.
The question of keeping these amendments or not is debated within the Nupes. Communist deputies withdrew the 350 amendments they had tabled on Thursday, followed by environmentalists and socialists, a decision described as “incomprehensible” by rebel leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon, who called not to “rush” towards point 7.
This Friday at midafternoon, more than 1,300 amendments must still be studied in the National Assembly so that the deputies can address article 7.
Source: BFM TV
