Paris (AFP)
The two LREM deputies who wrote to the Prime Minister asking him for details on the budgetary impact of the pension reform are simply "doing their job" as members of an Assembly committee, estimated on Thursday Stanislas Guerini, general delegate party.
These are "deputies of the Finance Committee who do their job as deputies: they ask for details on this or that point of the reform (...) It is the job of deputies to do that", he said. he judged on Cnews.
"The President of the Republic has always indicated that we will carry out a responsible, that is to say funded, reform. This course will be met. It is good to have this collective requirement," he added. .
As for a possible use of article 49.3 of the Constitution, which allows the adoption of a law without vote, Mr. Guerini assured that "it is not the objective of this majority", which wishes on the contrary "go to the end of the debate and enlighten the French" on the reform.
According to article 49.3, a project is considered adopted, without being put to the vote, unless a motion of censure is tabled within twenty-four hours which follow and if it is voted according to very precise conditions.
The two LREM deputies of the Finance Committee, Emilie Cariou and Laurent Saint-Martin, said Wednesday that they had written to Edouard Philippe to question him, through fifteen questions, on "the budgetary impacts" of the pension reform.
They would like to have details not "not on the overall cost of the reform but on the budgetary impacts of the various compensations" such as the "salary increases" of teacher-researchers or the "reductions in CSG" of lawyers and other independent professions, a said Ms. Cariou to AFP.
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