France: Liot MEPs withdraws its text to repeal retirement at 64
It was the last round until further notice in the parliamentary battle over pension reform. A text calling for the repeal of the reform was studied this Thursday morning by the deputies. The debates were lively and then stopped abruptly at the end of the morning.
A text calling for the repeal of the reform was studied this Thursday morning in the hemicycle. AFP - LUDOVIC MARIN
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This Thursday, June 8, the very strong emotion after the attack in Annecy has chilled the deputies. The boss of the Renaissance group, Aurore Bergé, also felt that it now seemed inappropriate to lead "this battle of ragpickers".
A few moments later, the president of the independent group Liot, Bertrand Pancher, came to announce that the text was withdrawn. Not because of the attack, but because since last week, the bill has been emptied of its substance and the sorting of amendments led by the President of the National Assembly Yaël Braun-Pivet did not allow to maintain the text. Yaël Braun-Pivet who was repeatedly booed by the oppositions on Thursday, who accuse her of having circumvented the rules of Parliament.
The presidential camp immediately responded strongly by denouncing the unconstitutional nature of the opposition's maneuvers and the radicality of their remarks. The very conservative Liot MP, Charles de Courson, rapporteur of the bill, has even been described as a hologram of Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
"We will go all the way"
The leader of the Insoumise deputies, Mathilde Panot, denounces an anti-democratic coup: "What scares the Macronists today is that they know very well that if we were discussing today the first article that allows to repeal retirement at 64, which is still wanted after more than five months of mobilization by the social majority of the country, then they would lose the vote. So it is an anti-democratic coup that they are making, against the parliamentary initiative, against the right of amendment of parliamentarians, but also against the rights of the people in general. We are going to fight the battle in the hemicycle and it is not a baroud of honour, no offense to the Macronists. We will go all the way and we will be able to repeal this retirement at age 64 that no one wants.
»What was hoped for as a new public fight on pension reform ends in relative anonymity because of the dramatic news of this morning.
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