Paris (AFP)

The secretary general of the CFDT Laurent Berger hoped Monday that the National Assembly will take the time to examine in public session "all the amendments" to the pension reform, even if the vote at first reading is postponed after the municipal elections .

The text presented in the hemicycle from February 17 should be the initial version of the government, without the slight changes voted in special committee, while there were Sunday evening 15,300 amendments to consider.

"Unfortunately, the commission cannot go to the end", but "what is necessary is that in the National Assembly, there is time to examine the whole text and examine it in depth", a underlined the leader of the first French union on BFM Business.

"What would be unbearable is that there is a form of acceleration." "It is necessary that the Parliament examines all the amendments", insisted the number one of the CFDT, favorable to a universal system of retirement by points.

When asked if he thought the bill could be adopted at first reading in the Assembly before the municipal elections of March 15 and 22, Laurent Berger replied: "It seems completely impossible to me".

"I am not responsible for the parliamentary calendar. But what is certain is that if there is a will to force things a little, to go too fast, it will not be understood," he said. -he argues, invoking "the state of the country" and "anxiety about a change in the pension system".

Asked about France Inter, the Secretary of State for Pensions Laurent Pietraszewski said that "the volume of amendments does not plead for an obvious solution" in order to move forward with the examination of the reform .

For the most part, "these are obstructive amendments" which are not part of a "substantive discussion", he regretted.

However, recourse to article 49-3 of the Constitution, which allows the adoption without vote of a bill, "is not the subject. We are here to work on the substance of the text", a he assured, as before him Marc Fesneau, the minister in charge of Relations with Parliament.

"No, there is no 49-3 on this subject," confirmed Mr. Pietraszewski.

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