Pension reform: end of debates in the National Assembly, without a vote on the entire text

It’s over: the National Assembly did not approve this Friday the social security financing reform bill. As provided for in article 47-1 of the Constitution, the examination of the pension reform by the deputies has concluded and the text must now be sent to the Senate.

The first reading approval of the pension reform by the National Assembly seemed to be excluded from the start of the parliamentary debates. The fault lies with the thousands of amendments tabled by Nupes, and in particular by La France insoumise.

10% of the reform debated by the deputies

Those who boasted of being “the masters of the time” at the Palais Bourbon withdrew several hundred amendments throughout the week, but ultimately decided to keep several thousand.

The debates, which began on Monday, February 6, ended this Friday at midnight, to subsequent amendments to article 2. However, the text presented by the government contains 20 articles. Therefore, in two weeks, the deputies have seen only a small part of the bill.

In addition to rejecting the Nupes amendments, the deputies voted in favor of abolishing most of the special regimes and voted against the establishment of a “senior index” in companies.

place in the senate

The Government having used article 47-1 of the Constitution, the Senate will now be intervened and must pronounce itself “within fifteen days.” Except that, due to parliamentary holidays, deputies and senators are on vacation from Monday, February 20 to Sunday, February 26.

It is therefore from Tuesday, February 28, that the senators will begin to examine the text in committee, before its mandatory passage in the chamber, until March 12, the last term.

A Mixed Commission, which brings together deputies and senators, must then agree on a common text. A final version that will be validated by the National Assembly and the Senate. All before March 26.

Otherwise, the government could implement its pension reform by ordinance, as provided in the Constitution. This would constitute a first in the history of the Fifth Republic.