2023-06-08 21:00:00
RETIREMENTS – The LIOT group (Freedoms, independents, overseas and territories) announced, at the end of the morning, in the National Assembly, the withdrawal of its bill aimed at repealing the decline in the legal retirement age. “There is nothing left of our text, except the amendments that the presidential minority kept”lamented the president of the group, Bertrand Pancher.
On May 30, the Social Affairs Commission had voted to delete the first article of the bill. The very essence of the LIOT group’s initiative, it provided for the repeal of the postponement of the legal retirement age to 64 years.
Amendments aimed at restoring the initial text inadmissible, according to Braun-Pivet
A few days ago, the President of the National Assembly, Yaël Braun-Pivet, had herself confirmed in the media that she intended to prevent the debate in public session today. The use of Article 40 of the Constitution therefore surprised no one in the hemicycle this morning, but the coup did not fail to make the deputies react.
André Chassaigne (PCF) recalled that “the only democratic space that our Constitution leaves to opposition groups is the parliamentary niches. Article 40 has never been activated in these niches”.
Once the procedure was initiated and the amendments declared inadmissible, on the pretext that they would be likely to aggravate a public charge, the president of the LIOT group, Bertrand Pancher, chose to shorten the discussions.
“There is nothing left of our text and we are not going to make a fool of ourselves by continuing the debate”he added, while thanking “the French who believed that Parliament was not going to stall” et “the press that still makes us believe that democracy is alive and that there is still a sharing of powers in our country”.
The end of the session was also greatly disrupted by the news of a knife attack perpetrated on young children in Annecy.
The National Assembly in turmoil following the knife attack in Annecy
The deputies became aware of the attack at the very end of the morning. The National Assembly immediately and unanimously observed a minute of silence.
Aurore Bergé, president of the Renaissance group, declared that a “kind of battle of ragpickers on the admissibility or not of amendments” seemed to him “totally out of step with the dread that overwhelms the country”. The session was then suspended.
Knife attack in Annecy: “Being at the moment in the hemicycle with a kind of battle of ragpickers on the admissibility or not of amendments seems to us to be totally out of step with the dread that overwhelms our country”, declares @auroreberge.#PPLLiot #DirectAN #Annecy pic.twitter.com/e6jU55ArEB
— LCP (@LCP) June 8, 2023
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