The president of the Renaissance deputies Aurore Bergé judges that the votes on Monday on the motions of censure will be a moment of “clarity” and that then it will be necessary to “rebuild the link” with the French, undermined by the highly contested pension reform.

Two motions aimed at overthrowing the government, one cross-partisan from the Liot group and the other from the RN, were tabled after the Prime Minister triggered Thursday’s 49.3 to pass the reform without a vote. They will be debated Monday in the National Assembly.

Their vote “comes down to a single question: the pension reform is an essential or unbearable reform for the French,” said Ms. Bergé on Sunday at Franceinfo-France Inter-Le Monde.

To the LR deputies who opposed the text, she said “that they assume”. It would take about thirty LR votes, or about half of the group, for the Liot motion to be adopted.

“Let’s go to clarity. Clarity is the vote,” launched the leader of the majority group. And if the government was overthrown, “we have to assume, we go back there” with a possible dissolution that President Macron could decide, she added.

In such a case, the president of the RN Jordan Bardella indicated on Friday that his party “will not present candidates in the constituencies where the LR deputies will vote” for censure.

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

Some came “knock on Matignon’s door” saying “I am ready to vote for the reform, on the other hand you are putting 170 million euros on the table to make a motorway bypass”, she denounced. Fortunately the government said no.

“Laurent Wauquiez hid”, also pointed out the elected official of Yvelines.

She claims to be thinking of the French: “Can they today understand the decision” of 49.3, “accept it, and how do we re-establish the link”. Because “whatever happens, after Monday we will move on”.

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 question of work be at the forefront, and the question of access to care”.

She wishes to carry with the majority a bill to transcribe the agreement between social partners on the “sharing of value” in companies.

For the President of the National Assembly Yaël Braun-Pivet, “the President of the Republic, the Prime Minister, the Minister of Labor must see how to reach a solution”.

“If the president chooses to address the French, obviously this word is welcome, it is necessary when you feel that there is this level of tension in the country, that there is this tension that ‘we must not deny or minimize,’ she added on BFMTV.

For this elected Renaissance, “we collectively have work to do on working conditions, the relationship to work, hardship, women’s careers, equal pay, it is important that we open all these fundamental sites”.

03/19/2023 20:22:02 –         Paris (AFP) –         © 2023 AFP