Attention, new rule. At least 185 parliamentarians agreed and would be ready to present a bill for a shared initiative referendum (RIP) to block the pension reform, the communist deputy for Seine-Saint-Denis Stéphane Peu announced on BFMTV.
In the event of a vote on the pension reform this Thursday in the National Assembly or approval by 49.3, the opposition deputies and senators are ready to start the procedure for the establishment of a PIR.
The shared initiative referendum is a complex procedure that has never been completed since its introduction into the Constitution in 2008.
185 deputies, 4.9 million voters
It foresees the possibility of organizing a popular consultation on a bill “at the initiative of one fifth of the members of Parliament”, that is, at least 185 of the 925 parliamentarians (577 deputies, 348 senators) and “supported by a tenth part of the voters. , that is, 4.87 million people, whose signatures must be collected within a period of 9 months.
Regarding the 185 parliamentarians, “I’ll announce it to you this afternoon: we have them,” says Stéphane Peu on the BFMTV set.
Regarding the 4.87 million signatories, the communist deputy wants to believe that the mobilization will be greater than during the last organized PIR: the one against the privatization of Aéroports de Paris. In 2019, only one million people had signed up.
Earlier in the day, National Assembly PS vice-president Valérie Rabault said she “believes very much” in a RIP blocking pension reform. The rebel Mathilde Panot explained that this constitutional provision was “in reflection” of the left.
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According to Stéphane Peu, the 185 parliamentarians agreed on “a bill that proposes that [l’âge de départ à la retraite] cannot exceed 62 years of age. A bill, therefore, “very simple”, judges the communist deputy, who stresses that it is not one of the many alternative proposals that have been debated in recent days.
“It is a referendum that will be in favor or against the proposal that is that of Emmanuel Macron”, which provides for the postponement of the legal age of departure to 64 years, summarizes Stéphane Peu.
However, the establishment of a RIP is an “obstacle course”, indicated Mathilde Panot during the day, underlines AFP.
Because a shared initiative referendum “cannot have the purpose of repealing a legislative provision promulgated less than a year ago,” provides for article 11 of the Constitution. And, for the RIP process to start, the Constitutional Council must take up the matter and validate the procedure within a month.
The calendar is, therefore, very tight: if the pension reform is promulgated before the referendum of initiative shared by the Constitutional Council is validated, it cannot be organized.
Source: BFM TV
