2023-06-08 01:12:02
Will vote, will not vote? For the past few days, an intense cacophony has invaded the corridors of the National Assembly around the Liot bill for repeal the pension reform. You don’t fully understand what’s going on? Le Parisien summarizes the latest developments for you.
Originally, the parliamentary group Freedoms, independents, overseas territories and territories (Liot) filed a bill on April 20 to repeal the pension reform. This is examined in the National Assembly this Thursday, within the framework of the parliamentary niche allocated to this same group.
A stormy and incredible passage in committee
The bill brought by the Liot group First of all, article 1 provides for the outright repeal of the postponement of the legal retirement age from 62 to 64 years. To finance such a measure to the tune of around 15 billion euros – deputies being prohibited from creating new expenditure in the state budget – they came up with a classic trick in article 2 of the bill , namely an increase in tobacco taxes.
Before its passage in the hemicycle, the text was examined by the Social Affairs Committee of the National Assembly on May 31. A crazy day which resulted in a text… emptied of its substance. Article 1 was rejected by 38 votes for, 34 votes against and one abstention. Many amendments to Article 1 have therefore been tabled by opposition MPs in an attempt to reintroduce the provisions that were ousted during its examination in session on 8 June.
Article 40 of the Constitution brandished by the majority
But the presidential majority has no intention of making their task easier. She relies on Article 40 of the Constitution, the same one that prohibits elected officials from creating any additional charge for public funds. “She does not respect our Constitution”, declared in particular on franceinfo May 17 Aurore Bergé, president of the Renaissance group at the Assembly.
In the eyes of Renaissance, the financing measures provided for in article 2 of the bill are only an artifice in total contradiction with the public health objectives carried for decades for a reduction in smoking. Counting on such significant revenue from this sector (we are therefore talking in billions of euros) would be to bet on a stabilization of the number of consumers, and not a decline. This recourse to tobacco taxes is indeed usually used “to compensate for a reasonable reduction in revenue, for an amendment which has no significant impact on the budget”, abounds with franceinfo Jean-François Kerléo, associate professor of public law at the University of Aix-Marseille.
For Braun-Pivet, there will be “no vote” on Thursday
Asked about RMC on Wednesday morning, the President of the National Assembly Yaël Braun-Pivet put a coin back in the machine: “Tomorrow, whatever happens, there will not be a vote on repeal of the pension reform”, she claimed, arguing that there would be “no repeal of the pension reform” period.
“On these amendments to restore Article 1 (which provides for retiring at 62), I am very clear: they will be declared inadmissible by myself during the day”, declared Yaël Braun-Pivet, adding that there would be “other inadmissibility which will be pronounced”. “I apply the rule, nothing but the rule,” she argued.
Liot sees red and speaks of “denial of democracy”
Something to strain relations with the opposition a little more, Liot in the lead: “It is not normal for this announcement to be made on a TV channel, instead of being first made public on the website of the Assembly, it is a further non-respect of its function”, assures the Parisian the entourage of deputy Liot Bertrand Pancherwhich denounces “the weakening of Parliament”.
“The decision of the President of the Assembly to declare inadmissible the amendments reinstating Article 1 of the bill repealing the increase in the effective retirement age constitutes a worrying precedent and a new denial of the democracy”, even accuses the parliamentary group in a press release.
LFI announces filing a motion of censure
Faced with the statements of the President of the National Assembly, the leader of the rebellious deputies Mathilde Panot immediately announced his group’s intention to file a motion of censure against the government.
The Insoumis are indeed not in agreement with the position of the majority, which considers that article 40 applies in this case. According to them, by providing for a financing measure to avoid creating a “burden on public finances”, the Liot group is bringing an admissible bill, and not submitting it quickly would therefore be “a denial of democracy”.
“It is unacceptable that we can make such a coup without there being a reaction behind it,” she said, without specifying when she would be dropped off, or with which other group she could be dropped off. .
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