France: the issue of pensions still ignites the National Assembly

2023-05-31T20:22:02.697Z

Highlights: The Social Affairs Committee of the National Assembly examined this Wednesday, May 31, the bill calling for the repeal of the pension reform. The presidential alliance, with the support of the LR (The Republicans), empties of its substance the bill supported in particular by the Nupes. After having seen hundreds of its amendments deleted, the opposition decides to leave the debates. But the president of the Renaissance group, Aurore Bergé, defends the strategy of the presidential camp: "We are in strict compliance with our institutions"

The Social Affairs Committee of the National Assembly examined this Wednesday, May 31, the bill calling for the repeal of the pension reform. A text that the presidential camp was...

France: the issue of pensions still ignites the National Assembly

The Social Affairs Committee of the National Assembly examined this Wednesday, May 31, the bill calling for the repeal of the pension reform. A text that the presidential camp was determined to sabotage. Which he finally managed to do, but at the cost of a new fierce battle with the opposition.

A bill to repeal retirement at age 64 was examined by the Social Affairs Committee of the National Assembly on 31 May 2023. © National Assembly / AFP TV

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From the first minutes of the meeting, the tone rises and the bursts of voices reach the gardens of the Assembly. Methodically, the presidential alliance, with the support of the LR (The Republicans), empties of its substance the bill supported in particular by the Nupes which, after having seen hundreds of its amendments deleted, decides to leave the debates.

They went beyond the Standing Orders of the National Assembly to get their way and not lose a vote. So, the only weapon we have left today is to leave this commission to denounce its artificial nature, "explains Sandrine Rousseau, ecologist deputy, at the microphone of Aurélien Devernoix, journalist in the political service of RFI.

The bursts of voices of the examination of the ppl LIOT in the Committee on Social Affairs can be heard from outside😬#DirectAN pic.twitter.com/BM7TRRkWMO

— Aurélien Devernoix (@aureldevernoix) May 31, 2023

The independent group Liot, which carried the text, is just as outraged, like its president Bertrand Pancher: "This is my 4th mandate as a parliamentarian, I have never seen so many attempts to border the functioning of the National Assembly by the majority.

But the president of the Renaissance group, Aurore Bergé, defends the strategy of the presidential camp: "We are in strict compliance with our institutions, the Constitution, our rules of law and our functioning. " And blames the Nupes for the heckling: "We have suffered threats, intimidation, insults, maneuvers, shenanigans. And we just responded with democracy, which is a vote. A vote that was therefore favorable to the Macron camp. The main provision of the text, the repeal of the pension reform, has been deleted.

France: the issue of pensions still ignites the National Assembly

France: the issue of pensions still ignites the National Assembly

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