The president of the LR group in the Senate Bruno Retailleau spoke on Thursday of “a very, very, very risky vote” on the pension reform in the National Assembly, revising downwards the number of deputies from his party in favor of the text.
The figures, given to him by the president of LR Éric Ciotti “late” Wednesday evening, “lead me to think that a vote today, without 49.3, is a very, very, very risky vote”, declared the senator on Public Senate, not hiding his preference for the constitutional weapon allowing the adoption of a text without a vote except motion of censure.
“We are between 30 and 35 for and about twenty against” within the LR group in the Assembly, he assured, considering that the text of the agreement between deputies and senators came out of the joint joint committee overnight. from Wednesday to Thursday “had not yet percolated sufficiently” and “there may be a few voices” in favor which appear by the vote scheduled for 3 p.m. According to several interlocutors on Wednesday, the LR votes “for” were to be between 35 and 40.
“If the government has assurances, we must go to the vote” because “it would be better to vote than 49.3”, he continued. “But a 49.3 would also be better than a rejection. It’s double or quits,” added Bruno Retailleau.