The right wants to speed up discussions on pension reform in the Senate. The head of the senators of LR, Bruno Retailleau, gave up this Saturday to present his emblematic amendment, which demanded that the suppression of special regimes also affect active employees.
This withdrawal in the early afternoon had the effect of reducing the number of amendments still to be considered from about 630 to about 360. In fact, it has nullified the multitude of subamendments tabled by the left in response, which would have taken several hours to submit. .
About 30 amendments examined per hour
Bruno Retailleau’s amendment had not been retained by the government on the list of those included in the text to be submitted to a “single vote” at the end of the debates.
Normally, these must be completed before midnight on Sunday for this election to take place, as the majority right in the Senate wants, as well as the government, eager to give democratic legitimacy to its reform rejected by a majority of French people. Knowing that some thirty amendments are considered every hour on average, ten hours could now be enough to get to the vote.
The Government attached to “the grandfather clause”
Through his amendment, Bruno Retailleau wanted the gradual suppression of the special regimes, provided for in the government text for new hires, to also affect active employees. He proposed “convergence (between the regimes, editor’s note) until 2040” believing that “there was nothing brutal while for all the French, from September 1, the reform will begin to be applied gradually.”
But the Government is opposed and has maintained its attachment to the “grandfather clause”, reserving the measure for future contracts. The Government deployed important means this Friday to speed up and ensure the holding of a vote, under Article 44.3 of the Constitution. The latter allows a single vote on the entire bill, without putting amendments to which the government is unfavorable to a vote.
A “forced coup” and a “collapse of the Senate”, denounced the senatorial left, which, however, did not lower its arms and continues to present its proposals and requests for various and varied reports, hoping to prevent a final vote. . In the absence of being able to debate and vote on each amendment, the left-wing senators use the full two minutes allotted to introduce them each time.
Source: BFM TV
