Rejection of the repeal of retirement at 64: "Everything was done according to the rules," replies Yaël Braun-Pivet to the oppositions

Laura Laplaud with AFP 08:43, 01 June 2023, modified at 08:44, 01 June 2023

The presidential camp won a stage victory. MEPs deleted Wednesday in committee the key article of a bill, tabled by the Liot group, repealing the postponement of the retirement age to 64 years. Most of the elected LR joined their votes to those of the majority during debates that looked like a pitched battle.

The deputies of the left-wing coalition Nupes ended up slamming the door of the Social Affairs Committee to criticize "maneuvers". The head of the LFI group Mathilde Panot called for "maximum popular pressure on June 6", during the day of mobilization organized by the unions. Reactions described as "astonishing" by the president of the National Assembly, Yaël Braun-Pivet, guest of Europe Matin Thursday. "There was a vote, by open ballot, which was very clear and rejected Article 1. After this vote, there was a scene of tumult, and that's why it's mind-boggling because there is a vote, it's democratic and we cry out for the denial of democracy, it's incomprehensible, it's very misleading and it misleads the population," she said.

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"What happened was the strict respect of our rules, our rules of procedure and therefore democracy," she added to the microphone of Europe 1. This text will be examined on 8 June in the hemicycle of the National Assembly.

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