The left-wing Nupes coalition decided on Wednesday evening to withdraw numerous amendments to the pension reform, with the stated objective of examining by the end of the week the decried article providing for the extension of the retirement age. at age 64.
LFI withdrew "more than a thousand" amendments at the end of the evening and the Socialists "90% of theirs", a parliamentary source told Agence France-Presse. "The objective is to vote, we hope as soon as possible, on this famous article 7", explained PS deputy Philippe Brun, judging that there was "a possible majority in the hemicycle for vote against "the age measure which crystallizes the opposition to the reform.
At the end of the session on Wednesday at midnight, however, there were still nearly 11,000 amendments on the counter in total, while the examination of the text at first reading must end on Friday at midnight in the Assembly.
The debates on Wednesday lingered at length on the left's funding tracks, presented as alternatives to age measurement. The Assembly notably rejected amendments from the Nupes (LFI, PS, EELV, PCF) asking "to restore and strengthen" the wealth tax or to increase the CSG on capital in order to free up new resources for retirees.
These amendments "allow a certain moment of truth", quipped in the hemicycle the Minister of Public Accounts, Gabriel Attal. "You finally acknowledged there was a funding issue after denying it for months. “No one here has denied the deficit” to come, “what we dispute is your catastrophist vision”, retorted the ecologist deputy Marie-Charlotte Garin. "There are other ways than 64" to bring in new resources, added his colleague Eva Sas.
"You wanted to avoid this debate, we are imposing it on you today," said Communist MP Pierre Dharréville, while Socialist leader Boris Vallaud criticized the government for preferring "a tax on life to a tax on the rich". "With you, it's the multiplication of breads, but we are not in Lourdes here", criticized for his part the Renaissance deputy Éric Alauzet, mocking like others in the presidential camp the proposals of the left.
The majority has also repeatedly targeted the group of Marine Le Pen (RN), which on Wednesday tabled a motion of censure. "It's your right" to table a motion of censure, said Gabriel Attal, but "you, there's no need to censure yourselves, you don't say anything, you're silent, you have no proposal" .
At the end of the session, the deputies adopted an amendment from the Renaissance group aimed at harmonizing the social regime applicable to contractual termination benefits, in order to "remove the incentive" to resort to it before the legal retirement age.
La Nupes has repeatedly called for an extension of the debates beyond the limit scheduled for midnight on Friday, which makes a vote on Article 7 uncertain. 'Rebellious Louis Boyard.
