Keep fighting. After the withdrawal of the Liot bill on the repeal of retirement at age 64, the left announced this Thursday at noon the presentation of a motion of no confidence.
“Faced with the anti-democratic coup (…) all the Nupes groups will carry a motion of censure that must be examined early next week,” said Mathilde Panot, the head of the rebel deputies.
“Never give up the fight”
Nupes elected officials also announced that they were taking “a June 8 oath” to “never give up the fight against pension reform.”
The independent group Liot has not yet decided whether to join the initiative or if it wants to present its own motion of no confidence. This option could push the left to withdraw its text to offer more possibilities for a motion of no confidence between parties.
Is this that happened last march after activating the 49.3 on pension reform. Which gives the executive cold sweats. Elisabeth Borne only escaped the overthrow of her government by 9 votes during this attempt.
The conclusion of weeks of battle over Article 40
But even if the vote of no confidence were approved, nothing would force Emmanuel Macron to repeal the pension reform. He might even accept the Prime Minister’s resignation on paper before asking him to stay in office, while he creates an explosive political situation.
This announcement is, however, the culmination of several weeks of very tense debates on the repeal of the pension reform. Macronie and the opposition forcefully rejected the admissibility of this bill.
Repeal text removed
Yaël Braun-Pivet finally drafted article 40 which specifies that any text defended in the National Assembly must be financially compensated so as not to weigh on public finances. The presidential majority judged that this was not the case with this text that proposed financing the return to retirement at age 60 through a tobacco tax, a great classic of legislative proposals.
However, parliamentary custom requires that the texts defended by the opposition be considered admissible. This maneuver, until now never used in history, set fire to gunpowder during the exchanges in the Assembly on the bill in session, this Thursday morning.
After general discussion, the Liot group finally decided to withdraw their bill, which no longer made much sense. “We tried to follow this process” without success, lamented Bertrand Pancher, president of the Liot group.
Source: BFM TV
