Paris (AFP)

The number one of the Socialist Party Olivier Faure assured Sunday want the parliamentary debate "until the end" on the pension reform, despite the avalanche of amendments, and pleads for a motion of censure in fine.

"I want the debate" and it should not be "caricatured", said Mr. Faure to France Inter / Franceinfo / Le Monde, on the eve of the start of discussions in committee, with some 22,000 amendments including 19,000 of which were rejected. the key.

The amendments allow "to have a speaking time, and behind that allows a thorough debate", justified the deputy of Seine-et-Marne.

He hopes "to bring into the debate, article after article, the dead ends, the unthought, the improvisations of this government".

And when should a censure motion be filed with the other two left groups, LFI and PCF? "I would like the motion to be a conclusion to the lack of progress (...) and not a prerequisite," replied Mr. Faure, who does not wish "the majority to be welded at the entrance to this debate. "

The leader of the rebellious France (LFI), Jean-Luc Mélenchon, first proposed a motion of censure, mid January. This can take place at any time, the start of the examination of the reform in the Assembly's hemicycle on February 17 having been mentioned by some on the left.

The First Secretary of the PS, he wants to "have (the debate) to the end, eyes in the eyes with this government" and "make the French understand that this project is regressive, (and) leads us to an industrial accident ".

While Mr. Mélenchon recently reiterated his motion proposal to "all opposition groups", Mr. Faure warns that he "never signs a motion with Marine Le Pen".

The latter said again on Sunday that she would "read" the motion and "why not" sign it.

The motion of censure against the government, which has no chance of being adopted given the overwhelming majority LREM-MoDem, "allows to symbolize a firm, total opposition", according to Mr. Faure.

However, he hopes "that there are parliamentarians in the majority who are asking questions". "If things do not move in Parliament, I hope that in the ballot boxes the French will be clear enough to express their fed up and that the government will be forced to let go," he added with reference to the municipal Of March.

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