- Faced with the thousands of amendments tabled by La France insoumise, the special committee on pensions should not have time to complete the examination of the text by this Wednesday evening.
- The bill arrives on February 17 in the hemicycle.
- The majority expect a fierce battle with the opposition.
"We scored a point," smiled the rebellious deputy Eric Coquerel in the corridors of the National Assembly. “The government wanted to impose an unimaginable timetable on this pension reform. They will have to start from scratch ”. By tabling 19,000 amendments, La France insoumise considers that it has succeeded in its bet: After nine days of sometimes absurd exchanges, the special committee will not have time to complete the examination of the bill on pensions by this Wednesday evening.
The text presented in the hemicycle from February 17 will therefore be the one initially proposed by the government. “They tried to block the debate, but on the bottom line, it does not change much. The voted amendments will be taken up in public session, "sighs Didier Baïchère, LREM deputy from Yvelines and member of the committee. But the majority is perhaps only at the beginning of the Stations of the Cross on this text: the oppositions are brewing their weapons to block the reform.
" The battle has only begun "
"We hope that after having done its show, LFI will have a more reasonable position during the session," said Marie Lebec, vice-president of the LREM group at the Assembly, during a press conference. The elected representative of Yvelines thus calls the opposition to "responsibility" and to "moderation", without giving the impression of really believing in it.
Because the rebels already promise a "fireworks" to the majority. " The battle has only begun. We are going to rewrite in plenary by tabling as many amendments as possible. Every day won benefits the social movement, ”warns Eric Coquerel. Amendments, motion of censure, referendum motion, the leftist parliamentarians wish to draw from the whole battery of instruments at their disposal.
The latest discovery comes from the socialists, who will launch a commission of inquiry into the "sincerity" of the impact study accompanying the project. "This study is partial and partial, evokes questionable hypotheses", says Boris Vallaud, PS deputy for Landes. If the approach will have no effect on the progress of the examination of the text, it constitutes in any case an additional obstacle for the majority. “Parliament must be brought to life by all means. We will go to the bottom of the text whenever possible, to clarify the national representation on the deceptions of the executive, as on this point of index ", which still remains to be defined, continues Boris Vallaud, one of the opposition specialists on the bill.
Faced with parliamentary obstruction, the prospect of a 49-3?
In the afternoon, questions to the government give an idea of the upcoming exchanges. The rebellious Clémentine Autain makes the majority scream when she talks about Margareth Thatcher. "Your reform is not ready, you should withdraw it rather than force it through!" "Then bumps the communist Pierre Dharréville. The right also attacks, with the elected representative of the Vosges Stéphane Viry, who denounces an "improper calendar" and a "democratic disintegration". Each time, Laurent Pietraszewski answers, cards in hand, sometimes raising his voice to cover the hoots.
"It is going to be a pugilat, we are preparing for a war of position, for a democratic Verdun", castigates Bruno Bonnell, LREM deputy for the Rhône. "This blocking strategy is inadmissible on the part of the oppositions, but we have the majority, so we will vote on the articles, one by one, by chain if necessary".
Time is running out because the majority still want to vote on the text before the first round of municipal elections, March 15. To absorb the expected mass of amendments, the executive could extend the time for debates by two to three weeks. Sufficient extension? The prospect of a 49-3, mentioned by some, is currently ruled out. Asked about the subject, Matignon sweeps: “We want to vote on the text before the municipal elections and at this stage nothing tells us that we would not get there. "
A party executive summed up, fatalistic: "On pensions, we got bogged down, we manage to turn gold into lead ... Of course, the law will pass but we will struggle to make a positive profit in it opinion. "
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