“Bravo for the denial of democracy.” Debates on the Liot bill in the National Assembly began with a bang on Thursday. On the menu: a text initially intended to repeal retirement at 64, but emptied of its content in commission by the majority and the deputies Les Républicains (LR), before Yaël Braun-Pivet, president of the National Assembly, did not declare it inadmissible the amendments presented by the oppositions to reintroduce the measure with a view to this public session.
The rapporteur of the text, the deputy Liot Charles de Courson – who has become a symbol of the opposition to the Government on the pension reform – delivered an offensive speech from the rostrum of the hemicycle.
“Never happened”
The elected representative of Marne denounced a “serious political misconduct” by Yaël Braun-Pivet, stating:
“This is a new step down the National Assembly that will come out badly damaged from this mandate. Bravo for the denial of democracy”.
“This text has never been the subject of a vote, it had never passed on pension reforms,” Charles de Courson still lamented.
The review of the pension reform in first reading stopped on February 18, two weeks after the opening of changes in the chamber. The Government had chosen to limit the debates in time using article 47.1 of the Constitution. After the green light from the Senate, the reform was approved on second reading in the Assembly no votes, for the application of article 49.3 of the Constitution, on March 16.
At the end of the speech, Charles de Courson warned the Executive: “The only thing that can come out of this reduction in Parliament is [du] disinterest in our institutions and, in the worst cases, anger and violence”.
Source: BFM TV
