“There may be an incident that pollutes everything. » In mid-January, the “rebellious” deputy for Seine-Saint-Denis Raquel Garrido was prophetic, warning that a misstep could weaken the fight of the left against the pension reform. Tuesday February 7, on the second day of the debates in the National Assembly, Adrien Quatennens was this spark capable of igniting the whole building. The deputy of La France insoumise (LFI), convicted of domestic violence, and excluded from his group until April, decided to defend an amendment against the abolition of the main special pension schemes.
His first intervention since his return to the Hemicycle triggered both an outcry and the applause of fifteen “rebellious”. ” It’s a shame ! », yelled the Renaissance deputy for Hauts-de-Seine Pierre Cazeneuve. Also outraged by the impromptu speech of Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s former dolphin, elected environmentalists – including Sandrine Rousseau, Marie-Charlotte Garin and Sandra Regol – left the Hemicycle, followed by the president of the Renaissance group, Aurora Bergé.
The scene thus eclipsed the dozens of speeches by the deputies of the New People’s Ecological and Social Union (Nupes), who defended, on Tuesday evening, the maintenance of special regimes. It will undoubtedly give additional ammunition to the presidential camp, which accuses the left-wing alliance of “to bordelize” the debates. While the discussion on pensions started on February 6 in the Hemicycle, the Socialist Party (PS), the Communist Party, LFI and the ecologists, perfectly aligned in the processions, are still seeking to unify their strategy at the Palais- Bourbon to block the reform.
“Building the front of refusal”
Evidenced by the some 13,000 amendments tabled by LFI, much more than the 1,413 of the socialists, the 2,349 of the ecologists and the 1,169 of the communists, but which, added together, feed the accusations of« obstruction » carried by the presidential coalition. “If the French have set up this National Assembly, it is for it to debate”, argues Bruno Millienne. However, the MoDem deputy from Yvelines defends the government’s decision not to have wanted to extend the debates on Saturday February 11 and Sunday February 12: “It would take three months to review 18,000 amendments. Why exhaust deputies? »
In unison, the Nupes denies any inclination to want to paralyze the discussion to avoid the vote of the text, the examination of which in the Assembly must be interrupted on February 17 at midnight, before being sent to the Senate. Cyrielle Chatelain, president of the environmental group, recalls that it was the government that imposed its timetable: “There will only be 7.5 sitting days. It is clear that the government does not want to debate. » “I challenge anyone to find an amendment that is not serious”defends, for her part, the president of the LFI group, Mathilde Panot.
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