“We refuse the trivialization of 49.3”. After the triggering of 49.3 decided by Emmanuel Macron on the pension reform, the parliamentary group Nupes decided to join the motion of censure of the group of independents (Liot), Jean-Luc Mélenchon announced this Friday. “We decided to give the greatest possible chance to censorship,” explained the former rebellious presidential candidate at the microphone of France Inter.
“We refused the trivialization of 49.3. She [Élisabeth Borne] did it 10 times. And yesterday, if we sang the Marseillaise, it was so as not to trivialize this procedure, ”he insisted. Jean-Luc Mélenchon again castigated the pension reform project, seeing it as a “text which has no parliamentary legitimacy”. “We are right to revolt because this text is only worth what the word of someone who is a minority in the country is worth: the President of the Republic who does not have a majority in the Assembly. »
“A text that will not have been voted freely anywhere”
If this measure applies, “it will be a very great first in the parliamentary history of France”, observes the former leader of rebellious France. “We will have a text that has not been freely voted on anywhere, neither in the Senate nor in the Assembly. The former MEP also “encouraged” the “spontaneous mobilizations throughout the country” because “this is where it’s happening”, while calling for demonstrations at the call of the inter-union during the weekend. end and next Thursday.