Bouches-du-Rhône senator Michel Amiel announced Sunday that he was leaving La République en Marche, after the government's decision to use 49-3 to have the pension reform project adopted by the National Assembly. "There have been a succession of very, very awkward blunders against fluid government action," he said. "The end of the end is 49-3, a Saturday evening in the middle of an epidemic of coronavirus, almost on the sly," he continued. "At one point, the form is inseparable from the bottom and it creates a real discomfort between the executive and the people," argues the elected official, also a municipal candidate at Pennes-Mirabeau in Bouches-du-Rhône, whose he was mayor until 2017.
"A deep disappointment"
"It is a decision that shows me a deep disappointment in a number of things," he said. "A good parliamentary debate" would, he said, have improved the pension reform project. In a statement posted online, he also denounces a decision that is "cynicism and political incompetence".
"Mr. Amiel announced almost a month ago that he wanted to leave the LREM group"
According to the minister in charge of relations with the Parliament Marc Fesneau, questioned on BFMTV, "Mr. Amiel had announced almost a month ago, that he wanted to leave the LREM group". "It is not worth (...) to hide behind current events to try to justify a departure from a group," he said.