Marine Le Pen announced on Wednesday that she had tabled a motion of censure with her RN group "so that the deputies opposed" to the pension reform "can express their rejection of this text", referring to a "parliamentary referendum".
While the debates are due to end Friday, midnight, "it is clear that no vote will be possible on Article 7" increasing the retirement age from 62 to 64, "and even less on the whole of the bill,” the far-right leader continued at a press conference. The motion presented by Marine Le Pen must be debated and put to the vote within 48 hours after its tabling (i.e. Friday, 5:55 p.m.) and three sitting days later, i.e. Wednesday.
"The few days of discussions in the hemicycle have shown that in reality, the major measure of the text was indeed the passage of the starting age to 64 years and that the rest of the measures were artifices in no way able to compensate for the brutality, injustice and anti-social character of this reform", writes Mrs. Le Pen in her text considering that "it would therefore be undemocratic if the representatives of the nation could not express themselves on this reform".
On Tuesday, the National Assembly rejected article 2 of the reform concerning the establishment of a senior index in companies, intended to encourage the employment of older employees. Uncertainty remains about the chances of reviewing Article 7 on raising the retirement age to 64, the project's flagship measure.
However, on Wednesday, around 4 p.m., nearly 14,000 amendments remained to be examined. “Even if we went twice as fast, it would take 500 hours to get to the end of the text; even if the whole of Nupes withdrew all of its amendments, there would remain 309 majority amendments", argued Ms. Le Pen on BFMTV, considering that a vote on Article 7 was "impossible".
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