Debates on pensions will not be public. The joint joint committee will not be broadcast live, the president of the National Assembly, Yaël Braun-Pivet, decided on Tuesday in a letter addressed to the president of the socialist group, Boris Vallaud. The boss of the Socialist deputies had asked Monday to authorize “exceptionally” the live broadcast of the joint joint committee (CMP) which must decide on the pension reform on Wednesday.
“The publicity of the work of the CMP is ensured only by a written report which reports the work and the votes of the commission as well as the interventions pronounced before it to the exclusion of any other process”, indicated in this letter Yaël Braun-Pivet. This report will be published on the Assembly’s website, but with a time lag of several hours or even days.
A tentative agreement
As a reminder, fourteen parliamentarians will have to develop a common version of the pension reform on Wednesday during a meeting behind closed doors. It is a final attempt at agreement, before recourse to Article 49.3, which consists in having the text adopted by the Assembly without a vote. The 14 elected will therefore seek to model a common text made of compromise. The government is not present, and cannot submit any drafting proposal. Of the 14 parliamentarians who will sit on Wednesday, 10 are in favor of pension reform.
If the parliamentarians reach an agreement, which is likely, the text will be submitted to the vote of the Senate on Thursday and then to the much more uncertain one of the Assembly, for its final adoption. Boris Vallaud had made the request on Monday to make this debate public, in order to be up to the “political moment”. The coordinator of La France insoumise Manuel Bompard had supported the request on Tuesday, to avoid “a secret camera with arrangements, schemes and shenanigans”.
The deputy LFI Hadrien Clouet, alternate member of this CMP, immediately reacted after the announcement of Yaël Braun-Pivet, launching on Twitter “Well, we’ll take care of the written report, to satisfy the President. See you tomorrow on our networks! »