Debates on pension reform accelerated significantly overnight from Monday to Tuesday in the Senate, giving parliamentarians hope for the examination of article 7, on the postponement of the legal retirement age from 62 to 64 years, as of this Tuesday night. After 14 hours of discussions between 10:00 a.m. Monday and 3:09 a.m. Tuesday, the senators are now on Article 6.
Odd fact: the president of the Luxembourg Palace, Gérard Larcher, returned in the middle of the night to lead the debates.
Rejection of amendments by leftist senators
Thus, articles 3, 4 and 5 of the pension reform were voted last night, after the majority rejection by the right of all proposals for taxation of super-profits or dividends presented by the left.
Precisely the senators had debated long and hard on Monday the proposals of the left to finance the pension system as an alternative to raising the retirement age from 62 to 64 years provided by the Government.
“Basically, you tell the French, work two more years because you have to protect the financial income of companies, income from assets, income from billionaires, dividends, super profits, the single tax and pension funds” , even the communist was carried away. Senator Pierre Laurent.
An understandable nuisance… since the start of the bill’s examination, no left-wing amendments have passed the Senate.
“I have rarely seen this situation. There were a thousand amendments proposed by the left opposition. Not a single one was voted on,” lamented the socialist David Assouline.
Since this Tuesday night?
However, there are still 2,475 amendments to study until Sunday night for the text to be voted on time. But only 160 of this long list separate the parliamentarians of article 7 of the pension reform from a debate on the postponement of the legal retirement age to 64 years.
Starting at 2:30 p.m. this Tuesday, the senators will then resume their work with the examination of article 6 of the bill, which describes the income and expenses of Social Security from 2023 to 2027. Then they will continue with the examination of the reforms to the “appendix” of article 6.
A vote on the whole of the first part “Recipes” is finally scheduled, which refers to articles 1 to 6.
It is only after this busy schedule that the senators will be able to debate Article 7. Depending on the progress of the senators, it could be considered tonight. The Senate already plans to sit on the night of Tuesday through Wednesday, as well as on the night of Wednesday through Thursday.
A respected “deal”
HE Left “deal” with Les Républicains therefore, it could be respected. The senatorial left coincided with the right in not examining retirement at age 64 in the chamber before the social mobilization of March 7.
“What was said is that until article 7 that postpones retirement at 64, we would have a normal method of debate and then we would move on to a method that will accelerate,” he explained before the start of the discussions to BFMTV.com. Guillaume Gontard, president of the environmental group.
But one question remains: what will be the attitude of the left when considering Article 7? More than 1,300 of the remaining 2,475 amendments were tabled on this part of the text. If each one of them is defended, the approval of the pension reform seems unthinkable at the end of the week.
Source: BFM TV
