Negotiations on the pension reform project accelerated this Wednesday in a parity committee of Parliament: as expected, the most sensitive point about lowering the retirement age to 64 years was validated. The seven deputies and the seven senators approved the famous article 7, informed the parliamentarians.
An essential (and probable) agreement before a new vote
A global agreement on the text in the joint joint commission is essential as it is a condition for a final vote, high risk for the executive, on Thursday in the Senate and especially in the National Assembly. It is probable that there will be an agreement in commission because the macronistas and the right are the majority there.
The work of the mixed commission is also part of the eighth day of national mobilization against the government’s plan to reform pensions, this Wednesday.
If the mixed commission manages to harmonize the versions of the senators and the deputies, the text will then be raised on Thursday morning to the Senate, dominated by the right, which will validate it for the last time. But the suspense remains in the vote that must continue in the afternoon in the National Assembly with the divisions that persist in Les Républicains. These doubts raise the possibility that the government activates article 49.3 of the Constitution, which allows approval without a vote.
The left lashes out at the commission’s vote
Even given the difficulties of this possible vote, the opposition denounced the vote on Article 7 by the commission. On the left, it was first Mathilde Panot, deputy elected in Val-de-Marne and president of the insubordinate group of France in the National Assembly, who was outraged on Twitter:
“Article 7 is approved in the CMP, with the complicity of the LR, which postpones the starting age to 64 years. 10 parliamentarians vote behind closed doors for 2 years for the entire population. Do not forget: there are only 10. ..and there are millions of us!”
Her colleague from Essonne, Farida Amrani, supported her.
“The presidential minority and its LR steps have united to condemn the people to 2 years of additional work. Vote in the National Assembly, referendum motion, rejection motion, no confidence motion: we will use all necessary means,” he tweeted.
Still in Nupes, this time among ecologists, Sandrine Rousseau returned a similar echo. “At a time when the Start Up model is collapsing in the markets, the CMP has just adopted article 7 to continue with the liberal and destructive model. Always stronger, always faster on the wall,” she wrote.
Anger in the RN
The far right in parliament have also expressed their anger. Thomas Ménagé, elected deputy in Loiret and spokesman for the National Rally group, also posted on Twitter.
“The postponement of the legal retirement age has just been approved by the LREM and LR deputies and senators. While 70% of the French oppose it, 70% of the CMP is made up of those who support this postponement: they will answer for it before the voters!” he warned.
Source: BFM TV
