Paris (AFP)
The party and the LR deputies reiterated their demand on Tuesday for the suspension of the debates on the pension reform, until the completion of the "financing conference" at the end of April, while the National Assembly will continue its work on the weekend. next end.
To avoid a 49-3, which allows the adoption of a text without a vote, the LRs sent a letter to the Prime Minister on Tuesday and drafted a motion for a parliamentary resolution to this effect. With this approach, which has no chance of succeeding a priori, they want to "get out of the obstruction" and the "devastating oral ping-pong" between the rebellious and the majority in the hemicycle, explains the leader of deputies LR Damien Abad.
Tuesday morning, at a conference of the presidents of the Assembly, it was decided to continue the sessions on pensions by opening the weekend again. At this stage, the planned calendar extends until March 6, to leave deputies a parliamentary break during the municipal elections of March 15 and 22.
According to the president of LR Christian Jacob, at the Palais Bourbon "the far left assumes a logic of total obstruction, and opposite, the majority seek the opportunity of a clash to be able to justify the use of the 49-3".
To allow a "serene debate" and stop working "on a gap text", the LRs ask for a "suspension of the work" of the Assembly until the end of the "financing conference", which brings together the social partners to find solutions by the end of April to bring the pension system back to balance by 2027.
After this "suspension", the LRs propose to the government to "table a new bill" which would take into account the financing conference and would be debated in the Assembly with "a legislative time scheduled to avoid parliamentary obstruction".
On the subject of the debate in progress, Damien Abad denounced a "distressing spectacle" and "the hypocrisy of a majority which plays the indignant ones to criticize in public a situation of blockage of which it sometimes rejoices in private".
The chairman of the Finance Committee Eric Woerth (LR) also listed "40 questions" in his eyes "without answers" on the reform of the universal pension system by points, in particular on its "financing", the "value of the point" or the situation of women.
Guillaume Peltier, number two of LR, for his part judged on Franceinfo "extremely likely" that the right party, "first opposition group", tabled a government censure motion in case of 49-3, to say " no to your coup, no to your unjust reform, listen to "the alternative proposal for a" just "," viable and sustainable "reform brought by LR.
He thus excluded the possibility of rallying a motion which would be carried by the left, since LR has "a position radically opposed to that of the left and the Insoumis" who, them, "do not want a reform of pensions", made worth Mr. Peltier.
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