Two motions to overthrow the government, one transpartisan of the Liot group and the other of the RN, were tabled after the triggering Thursday of 49.3 by the Prime Minister to pass without a vote the reform. They will be debated on Monday before the National Assembly.

Their vote "comes back to a single question: the pension reform is an essential reform, or unbearable for the French," Bergé told Franceinfo-France Inter-Le Monde on Sunday.

To the LR deputies who opposed the text, she says "they assume". It would take about thirty LR votes, about half of the group, for the Liot motion to be adopted.

"Let's go to clarity. Clarity is voting," said the leader of the majority group. And if the government was overthrown, "we must assume, we return" with a possible dissolution that could decide the President of the Republic Emmanuel Macron, she added.

In such a case, RN president Jordan Bardella said Friday that his party "will not present candidates in constituencies where LR deputies will vote" censure.

According to Ms. Bergé, "it is very clever on the part of the extreme right". The leader attacked those on the right who Thursday "stalled at the last moment, in perfect contradiction with what they have always advocated themselves" on the retirement age.

Some came to "knock on the door of Matignon" saying "I am ready to vote for the reform, on the other hand you put 170 million euros on the table to make a motorway bypass", she denounced. "Fortunately the government said no."

"Laurent Wauquiez hid himself," also pointed the elected Yvelines.

She says she thinks of the French: "Can they understand today the decision" of 49.3, "accept it, and how we do to rebuild the link". Because "whatever happens, after Monday we will move on to something else".

Emmanuel Macron could intervene because he "has a word that is eagerly awaited by the French," according to her.

Ms Bergé suggests "shaking up the agenda": "it is more than urgent that the issue of work be at the forefront of the stage, and the issue of access to care".

It wants to bring forward with the majority a bill to transcribe the agreement between social partners on the "sharing of value" in companies.

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