Tense debates in the National Assembly. The majority deputies deserted the hemicycle for about thirty minutes late Tuesday evening to protest against the "obstruction" and a "litany" of "irrelevant" amendments of the rebels and the Communists, during examining the pension reform.
The opposition denounced “cinema”, “the big horn” and an infringement of the right of amendment. Then the tone rose again at the very end of the session, at the end of an "eventful evening" completed around 1 am Wednesday.
"It is our right to challenge the nature of these debates"
From 23:35 to 12:10, only the group presidents Gilles Le Gendre (LREM) and Patrick Mignola (MoDem) remained in the hemicycle to represent their troops in the face of the opposition. "We have just initiated a series of all identical amendments, with once again the clear desire to make the debate unnecessarily last," pointed out Gilles Le Gendre. "It is our right to challenge the nature of these debates, we do not wish to participate in them."
"We are waiting for the litany to end before returning to the session for the substantive debate," said Roland Lescure (LREM), in the corridors of the Palais Bourbon.
"A" staging "of the majority"
The oppositions then chained reminders of the regulations to denounce a "staging" of the majority, according to the deputy LR Stéphane Viry, or "cinema" for the communist André Chassaigne. The socialist Boris Vallaud saw in it a "striking summary of the way in which the majority considers Parliament".
According to the deputy Liberties and Territories Jean Lassalle, “a majority must assume. What they do (the LREM and the MoDem) is not entirely fun, not up to the national representation ”.
"Skid" of a reporter who "lost his nerves"
After the majority returned to the hemicycle, a statement by co-rapporteur Nicolas Turquois (MoDem) set fire to the powder: "Some said" the Republic is me "(an allusion to Insubmissive Jean -Luc Mélenchon), well, the Republic is us and you are nothing, "he launched to the opposition. The oppositions then castigated a "slip" of a reporter who "lost his nerves". The chairman Hugues Renson acknowledged "excessive remarks" by Nicolas Turquois, who also apologized.
Prior to these incidents, each side transferred responsibility for the “obstruction” and “absurdity” of the proceedings. The deputies trampled in article 2 of the text, on the 65 of the ordinary part of this pension reform.
Prime Minister Edouard Philippe asked LREM deputies on Tuesday to "hold on" to the "obstruction" of the left from the left, while ensuring that, if necessary, he would take on his "responsibilities" by resorting to 49-3 , weapon of the Constitution allowing to adopt a text without vote.
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