There Joint committee, made up of seven deputies and seven senators, opens this Wednesday, to try to find a compromise text on the controversial pension reform. In the event of a conclusive commission – the most probable scenario in terms of its composition – the new text will be submitted to a vote by the Senate and then by the National Assembly.
Negotiations that will take place in the room of the Social Affairs Commission of the National Assembly, behind closed doors. However, in a letter addressed to the President of the Assembly, revealed by the parisian and that BFMTV.com was able to obtain, the leader of the socialist deputies, Boris Vallaud, asks to make the joint joint committee “public”.
“We will live up to expectations”
If the regulations of the National Assembly do not provide for the “public” opening of the joint joint commission (CMP), it is customary for it to be held behind closed doors. The objective of the socialist is to make these debates transparent, while 10 of the 14 parliamentarians of this institution are in favor of the reform.
“Although the pension reform rarely mobilizes millions of French men and women and all trade union organizations against it, the quality of parliamentary deliberation on this bill is notoriously insufficient,” Boris Vallaud estimates in his letter.
For the leader of the Socialist deputies, the CMP “could thus benefit from the audio and video recording and retransmission devices already present” in the room of the Social Affairs Commission of the National Assembly.
And the socialist to conclude: “this week, our work will be especially observed by our fellow citizens and by the media. Let us live up to your legitimate expectations in terms of publicizing parliamentary work and the political moment we are going through”.
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Several Nupe deputies have already asked for the closed-door session to be adjourned, such as the rebel deputy Raquel Garrido. “Nothing good can come out of a closed-door meeting. Otherwise, a live tweet is essential,” she wrote on Twitter.
For her part, the president of the LFI group and member of the CMP, Mathilde Panot, has indicated that she “commits” to “filtering” the CMP.
“Why is the debate public in the Assembly and the Senate? Because everyone can follow the debates and it seems interesting to me, at a time when many aspects of this text have not been discussed, that citizens can know what is happening, “he said. justified in the LCP set.
Source: BFM TV
