“We give them an appointment on March 7 in the streets of France and in all the companies where we are going to effectively stop the country.” These are the words with which Olivier Faure, head of the PS and deputy for Seine-et-Marne, ended the last intervention of the Nupes during the debates on the pension reform in the National Assembly.
Deaf dialogues, tense negotiations and repeated incidents: the two weeks of the first reading of the pension reform in the Palais Bourbon were stormy.
But, like others before him, Olivier Faure makes a partly positive assessment of these last fifteen days of debates. “The debate allowed all the hares to rise, on women, on €1,200, on all the issues on which you tried to deceive the French men and women,” he launched in the chamber.
“Exposing the lies of the government”
“In this battle, the Nupes and the rebels did a useful job, when we unmasked the lies of this government,” the president of the LFI group Mathilde Panot abounded minutes later in front of the press.
Even André Chassaigne, from the GDR (communist) group who sometimes criticized the obstruction of La France insoumise, during the examination of the motion of censure of the National Group, conceded it.
He acknowledged that the “debates, admittedly too short, showed that the 1,200 euros were a chimera, that their deep desire is to divide the French by returning to the regimes that you call ‘special’, aligning them downwards.”
What mobilization?
The deputies are on vacation next week, they will resume their work on February 27. With the aim of mobilizing for March 7, the next big day of action against the pension reform.
“You two, macronistas and RN, want the debate to stop tonight, because they are afraid, not of article 7, but of article 7 of March, that is, of the mobilization of the French people, which will make them go back.” , wanted to believe the rebel Mathias Tavel at the end of the day this Friday.
But what will be the reaction of the unions? In a message posted on Twitter, Laurent Berger denounced the “desolate spectacle given by the National Assembly, in contempt for the workers.” Because he and Philippe Martinez absolutely wanted a debate on article 7 of the bill.
The pension reform will now go to the Senate. Since the atmosphere in the Luxembourg Palace is largely “calmer” than in the National Assembly, the famous article about the postponement of the legal retirement age to 64 should be open to debate.
Source: BFM TV
