The majority continue to pitch. A few days after the controversy over the bereavement leave, two LREM deputies expressed doubts about the pension reform. Emilie Cariou and Laurent Saint-Martin, members of the Assembly's Finance Committee, raised questions that remained unanswered, notably on the cost of the reform.
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"Nothing is clear"
"Nothing is clear," said Emilie Cariou, interviewed by Le Monde . The member signed, with her majority colleague Laurent Saint-Martin, a letter addressed Tuesday to Édouard Philippe. Inside, these two pillars of the finance committee ask for answers on the budgetary impacts of the bill. In total, around fifteen technical but central questions around compensation measures.
They question in particular the salary increases for teachers and researchers or the CSG reductions for lawyers, or the repercussions on Social Security accounts. "With the questions of this letter alone, we are surely already on a bundle of billions," say these two deputies. "We need the figures for the global economy of the reform," they claim to Edouard Philippe.
They hope for answers before Monday
The opposition, which also claims figures, is enjoying this little pressure from the marchers against the Prime Minister. "We talked about financial steering, but in terms of steering it starts to wobble in the handle in the majority, forgive me the expression. We have just learned that two pillars of the finance committee have written a letter to the Prime Minister for judge the financial feasibility of the bill, "reacted the socialist Régis Juanico, during the special commission in the National Assembly.
Emilie Cariou and Laurent Saint-Martin are hoping for answers from the Prime Minister before Monday, the day the bill arrives in public session.