Some assure hand on heart to be against, others fix red lines or hesitate before seeing the final text after amendments. But all have in common to make a dissonant voice heard within the group Les Républicains (LR) in the National Assembly, whose support must avoid the majority an embarrassing recourse to a 49.3 on the pension reform.
Expected and essential for the government, will the forty votes needed to reach an absolute majority fall like ripe fruit? Yes, in theory, despite the thirteen right-wing elected officials ready not to vote for the text as it stands, according to The Sunday newspaper. Eric Ciotti and Olivier Marleix think they can hold their troops, but the president of the party and that of the group in the National Assembly know that parliamentary practice sometimes reserves surprises, especially in a collective of 62 deputies “characterized by individuals who have their freedom to vote, which is both our strength and our weakness”summarizes Stéphane Viry, deputy of the Vosges.
Appointed to be one of the two speakers of the group on the text during its passage in committee, from January 30 – before its examination in public session, scheduled for February 6 –, Mr. Viry belongs to the clan of the hesitant, more numerous than that of the “nonists” assumed for the moment. “I will table amendments and try to move the reform during parliamentary workhe said. I’m not going to tie my hands even before the project arrives in committee or in the Hemicycle. I am basically an opposition MP. »
The awakening of the social right
Being in opposition but walking with the majority on such a sensitive and criticized text, the big gap requires too much flexibility from some. “Today, Elisabeth Borne’s reform as it is presented is no, warns Pierre Cordier, related deputy LR of the Ardennes. Every five or six years, you have an Eric Woerth or a Marisol Touraine to tell you “with my reform, you are quiet for thirty or forty years”. At this rate, we can push to 67, 70 and people will die at work. »
To believe that the text proposed by the Prime Minister electrifies the social fiber among certain LRs and revives nostalgia for the flights of Philippe Séguin. Too young to have frequented the former president of the National Assembly, Maxime Minot (35) also opposes in principle the postponement of the legal retirement age to 64. “We should talk about annuities and that’s it. The person who started working early, if he made 43 annuities, I do not see why he would be asked to work longer. The one who started contributing at 19 as a caregiver does not think “not closed to abstention if the debates move in the right direction on the consideration of long careers”.
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