The LFI MP deemed the bill "admissible" in the name of a "flexible application" of the Constitution to defend "parliamentary initiative" and the "right of the opposition".
The president of the National Assembly, Yaël Braun-Pivet (Renaissance), pleaded the opposite Tuesday morning and assured that she would "take her responsibilities" to prevent the vote of this text expected Wednesday in committee and June 8 in the hemicycle.
The presidential camp has been agitating for several weeks article 40 of the Constitution which provides that parliamentary initiatives are not admissible if they aggravate public charges.
The bill of the independent group Liot is "unquestionably inadmissible", has embraced the general rapporteur of the budget Jean-René Cazeneuve (Renaissance), who thinks, however, that the Social Affairs Committee will examine the text on Wednesday.
Surrounded by several elected representatives of the left-wing coalition Nupes, Eric Coquerel denounced during a press briefing the "pressures that have been made in recent days", "many coming from the executive": "I find it a little paradoxical that the executive meddles to this extent with a purely parliamentary decision", he attacked.
He stressed that the members of the presidential majority had no "obligation" to seize the president of the Finance Committee and invoke Article 40 of the Constitution as they did. "It is a partisan gesture, a political gesture to discard a text," in a "partisan logic," he lamented.
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