Do we need a massive shedding of amendments to arrive as quickly as possible at the examination of article 7, on the postponement to 64 years of the retirement age? The question is still being debated within the Nupes, where the LFI group in the Assembly is under pressure from its partners and unions concerned that each deputy speaks on the heart of the bill whose examination at the Palais- Bourbon ends Friday at midnight.
Monday, in a first gesture, the left announced to give up 1000 amendments. On Tuesday, environmentalists brought down 150 more. The socialists could soon imitate them. “It’s like a hot air balloon: we let go of ballast as we go further,” summarizes PS deputy Olivier Faure.
Except that with still some 9000 amendments to examine before arriving at the famous article, the account is not there and the eyes turn towards the Insoumis, the most bulimic in the matter. “They are divided on the strategy”, blows a PS. Monday morning, during a meeting between the leaders of the Nupes parties, the coordinator of LFI, Manuel Bompard, was very reluctant. “His argument was to say: if article 7 is voted in the Assembly, the country is demobilized “says a participant. This Tuesday, the boss of the LFI group, Mathilde Panot, also refused to embark on this path, defending “a strategy of moving parliamentary resistance”. Except that several LFI deputies, like François Ruffin, are pushing for article 7 to be examined.
A meeting between CGT, FO and Nupes officials
According to our information, a meeting will bring together this Wednesday at 1:30 p.m. Nupes officials and union leaders Philippe Martinez (CGT) and Frédéric Souillot (FO). “The idea is to stall with them to adapt our political response” explains a Nupes executive who hopes to provoke new rounds of lifting of amendments. An Insoumis slips that an exceptional meeting of the LFI group could take place in the next few hours to decide.
There is no guarantee, however, that a massive cancellation of Nupes amendments will ultimately lead to the examination of Article 7. dragged things out, deplores Olivier Faure. In fact, none of them want their name to be inscribed against this law. »