2023-06-07 13:06:05
Consideration of the Liot Independent Group’s proposal to repeal retirement at 64 will not happen. His fate was suspended by a decision of the president of The national assembly. Et Yaël Braun-Pivet (Renaissance) announced to block the examination of this measure, this Wednesday.
“On these amendments to restore Article 1, [qui prévoit de repasser à 62 ans], I am very clear: they will be declared inadmissible by myself during the day, ”said Yaël Braun-Pivet on BFMTV. “I apply the rule, nothing but the rule”, she added, an allusion to article 40 of the Constitution which prohibits any parliamentary proposal creating a burden on public finances.
Motion of censure against the government
“We do not twist the Constitution to please the opposition,” defended government spokesman Olivier Véran, adding “we are in strict compliance with constitutional rules”. For her part, the leader of the rebellious deputies Mathilde Panot announced the intention of his group to table a motion of censure against the government, after this announcement on Wednesday.
“Obviously we will table a motion of censure because it is unacceptable that we can make such a coup without there being a reaction behind”, declared Mathilde Panot in front of journalists, without specifying when it would be tabled. , nor with which other group it could be. “We will discuss it with them,” she added.
“An unprecedented attack on the rights of Parliament”
The independent and centrist Liot group of deputies, behind the proposal, denounced “an unprecedented attack on the rights of Parliament” after the announcement by the President of the Assembly that she would block the examination of this measure, scheduled for Thursday in the hemicycle.
“Under pressure from the executive, the President of the National Assembly therefore [ce] choice”, noted the Liot group, denouncing “an unprecedented attack on the rights of the Parliament and “a new denial of democracy”. “Our ambition remains the same, to allow a vote by the Assembly on pension reform, the only condition to appease the country,” they added.
Silence possible “reinstatement amendments”
The rest of the bill, carried by the independent group of deputies Liot and supported by most of the opposition, can still be examined on Thursday. But therefore without a possible vote on its flagship measure which aimed to repeal the decline in the legal age of departure to 64 years. The Liot text maintained the flame of opponents of the reform promulgated in mid-April, even if the participation Tuesday in the 14th day of mobilization was the weakest recorded in five months of manifestations.
The announcement of the holder of the perch is not a surprise. “I will take my responsibilities”, she had assured several times in recent days, describing as “unconstitutional” the repeal of the 64 years. The measure in question had already been challenged last week in committee, after a close vote (38 votes against 34), but the oppositions expected to be able to replay this match Thursday in the hemicycle, by filing “reinstatement amendments” . It is to the latter that Yaël Braun-Pivet will obstruct, as authorized by the rules of the institution.
Debate on “the conception of democracy”
The boss of the Liot deputies, Bertrand Pancher, who accused the presidential camp of “throwing oil on the fire” of a fractured country, by trying to prevent a vote on Thursday. Already resigned to the impossibility of voting on the repeal measure on Thursday, his group and the left have drawn up fallback plans. They tabled a series of alternative amendments with the aim that a symbolic ballot still take place around age measurements, without exposing themselves to the ax of article 40. Some propose, for example, to establish “ a goal of repealing “64 years by 2024.
The filing of a new motion of censure against the government is also being debated between the opposition groups which are already expanding their fight beyond pensions. The protest movement has “passed from a social question to a debate on the conception of democracy”, judged on Tuesday the First Secretary of the PS, Olivier Faure, in reference to the passage to the forceps of the postponement of the retirement age to 64 years. The patron saint of communist deputies André Chassaigne considered that the country had become “a democracy which tomorrow can lead to a dictatorship”.
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