The Assembly voted Friday, February 10 the gradual extinction of most special schemes, provided for in the first article of the pension reform, during a new tense session where accusations of obstruction launched at the left .
This vote, with 181 votes against 163, marks the adoption of the first measure of the disputed government project, the examination of which has been progressing slowly since it kicked off on Monday in the hemicycle.
With hundreds of amendments, the left-wing coalition Nupes unsuccessfully defended the maintenance of the various regimes targeted, that of the RATP, the electricity and gas industries (IEG), the Banque de France or the clerks and employees of notaries. .
A measure of “equity”
The Renaissance rapporteur for the text, Stéphanie Rist, defended a measure “equity”. “Why do we want to abolish special diets? Because they cost 1.8 billion euros to the French every year”launched the opposition Renaissance deputy Sylvain Maillard.
“Why don’t you touch the special regime for senators? Because you need the right of the Senate to push through this reform”retorted the Insoumis Antoine Léaument, qualifying the macronists as “big hypocrites”. Amendments concerning the scheme ” autonomous “ senators were ruled out of order. “Tomorrow we will be in the street, fist raised, we will fight you”assured his colleague Rachel Keke.
Once again during this session, the presidential camp and the RN strongly criticized the choice of the Nupes to have tabled amendments by the thousands, stretching the speaking times of the left and slowing down the debates. “You have been creating a diversion with hundreds of identical amendments for hours”was indignant Violette Spillebout (Renaissance).
“It’s obstruction”
“Your amendments are useless”added the Minister of Labor Olivier Dussopt, before referring to the controversial tweet the day before of the Insoumis Thomas Portes, where the latter stages his foot on a ball bearing the image of the Minister of Labor.
“What do you want, you want to start over, you want my head as your colleague, you want to continue in violence”he launched, reacting to invectives during his speech. “Your amendments are useless, it’s obstruction”concluded Olivier Dussopt. “You are useless, completely off the mark, you are the useful idiots” of the government, also launched the deputy RN Thomas Ménagé.