Pension reform: the Liot group in turn wants to seize the Constitutional Council

2023-05-28 12:57:11

The text repealing retirement at age 64, supported by the parliamentary group Liot (Freedoms, independents, overseas and territories) must be studied on June 8 in the hemicycle. The chairman of this group, Bertrand Pancher, provides Point that he will, whatever happens, seize the Constitutional Council that day.

” We want that article 24 of the Constitution, which indicates that Parliament votes the law, be respected, ”he says. “We will seize the Constitutional Council”, abounds on France 3 this Sunday Charles of Coursondeputy Liot and figure of protest against the reform.

“Denial of democracy”

In committee this week, the majority should indeed unsurprisingly draw its main weapon again to block: Article 40 of the Constitution. The latter provides that the initiatives of parliamentarians are not admissible if they entail an increase in public charges.

An approach that Charles de Courson deplores: “in a democracy it is not normal that we prevent a majority which was against this text from expressing itself and that we make this text vote with blows of 49.3”. He speaks of “denial of democracy”. “The deputies did not vote for the pension reform and the senators voted for a law which included legislative riders canceled by the Constitutional Council “, also declares Bertrand Pancher.

The bill carried by the independent group Liot maintains the flame of the opponents of the reform promulgated in mid-April. A new day of mobilization is scheduled for June 6. The presidential camp, for its part, wants at all costs to prevent this proposal from prospering, and as of Wednesday, in the Social Affairs Committee, it plans to empty it of its substance.

There would then remain the decisive stage of June 8 in session, where the balance of power promises to be more favorable to the opposition than in committee… if there is a vote.