Repeal of retirement at age 64: the Liot group announces that it is withdrawing its text

2023-06-08 14:07:05

Surprise. The group of deputies Liot announced, this Thursday at the end of the morning, to withdraw its text of repeal of the retirement at 64 years discussed in the National Assembly, which had been emptied of its flagship measure.

“There is nothing left in the text except obviously the amendments of the presidential minority. In responsibility, we have decided to withdraw our text”, indicated to the press the boss of the group Bertrand Pancher, after more than two hours of eruptive exchanges.

Electrical session at the Assembly

Head of the Liot, the deputy Charles de Courson warned against a possible resurgence of “anger and violence”, at the start of the day’s session in the National Assembly. “I solemnly warn you: we are only passing through here. From this lowering of Parliament can only emerge disinterest in our institutions, and in the worst case, anger and violence, ”he said to the presidential camp.

Deprived of a vote on a proposal to cancel retirement at 64, the opposition voiced their anger on Thursday against the presidential camp, accused of “crushing parliamentary democracy”. In return, the Minister of Labor, Olivier Dussopt, pointed to an “almost nihilistic” and “empty” bill. “You are not offering anything other than to discard because you have no common alternative project”, he launched to the supporters of the text, from the Nupes to the RN via certain LRs.

In an agitated hemicycle, this Thursday’s session began with a series of points of order, targeting the decision taken on Wednesday by the President of the Assembly Yaël Braun-Pivet to block the examination of the repeal measure, judged ” unconstitutional” because it creates a burden on public finances. A position that the Liot had deemed to be “an unprecedented attack on the rights of Parliament”.

Motion of censure of LFI

For its part, Nupes has announced that it is filing a motion of censure against the government. “Faced with the anti-democratic coup […] all the groups of the Nupes will carry a motion of censure which should be examined at the beginning of next week, ”declared to the press the boss of the LFI deputies Mathilde Panot, surrounded by her partners. The independent group Liot has not yet decided whether to join the initiative.

“We are entering a zone of lawlessness”, worried, this Thursday morning on RTL, the communist deputy Fabien Roussel, calling on the LR deputies to join it “to preserve our right to vote in the Assembly” .

Even adopted by the Assembly, the repeal proposal would have had only a slim chance of succeeding at the legislative level, the Macronist deputies have constantly argued. While worrying about the political signal that a victory of the oppositions would have sent. With the end of this parliamentary sequence, two days after a 14th day of social mobilization whose participation was the lowest recorded in five months of demonstrations, the executive hopes to finally be able to turn the page on pensions.

With AFP