The Renaissance President of the National Assembly Yaël Braun-Pivet evaluated Tuesday at "9,000" the number of amendments to be withdrawn so that the flagship measure of the pension reform, the postponement of the departure to 64 years instead of 62, can be debated.
"There are 14,000 left (...) but yes, it would take almost 9,000 to withdraw" to reach article 7 which includes the age measurement, she estimated on RTL, inviting "everyone to pull themselves together" .
She accused "a group of rebellious deputies, obviously not all of them because we must not make amalgam" which, according to her, leads a "strategy" of "obstruction", of "personal attacks", of "guerrilla warfare". parliamentary", of "aggressiveness", of "invective", "sometimes of insults".
After more than a week of debate on this very controversial reform and which brought together in the street several times more than a million demonstrators, article 2 had still not been adopted. The debates are bogged down under the flood of amendments, nearly 18,000 tabled, including around 13,000 only by rebellious France.
On Monday, leftist deputies announced that they were giving up a thousand amendments to speed up the pace.
Whether or not the deputies have completed the examination of the bill, the discussions will end Friday at midnight on first reading. The text will then go to the Senate. It is indeed a budgetary text and the government has used article 47.1 of the Constitution to limit the time for parliamentary debates.
"It is the bill that is suited to this type of reform", justified Mrs. Braun-Pivet, adding that "when we look at the rate of progress and the number of amendments, if we had not chosen this procedure (...) we will still be there next Christmas", without "possibility of talking about the justice law, the military programming law, the nuclear law".
Asked about the applause from the ranks of the presidential majority the day before when Marine Le Pen deplored that the Minister of Labor Olivier Dussopt had been called an "impostor" and "assassin" by the Insoumis Aurélien Saintoul, the president of the Assembly replied: "that's a good question". "We actually see that, at times, we are able to find ourselves largely around these values of debate", she added.
"I expect parliamentarians, whoever they are, to respect this hemicycle and everyone will judge who respects it and who does not," she said.
02/14/2023 08:44:15 - Paris (AFP) - © 2023 AFP
