Since its arrival at the National Assembly, for examination, the text on pension reform has been the subject of lively debate, sometimes going beyond the democratic framework, and forcing Yaël Braun-Pivet, the president of the hemicycle, to suspend the sessions. Elisabeth Borne asked Monday evening, February 13, in an interview with AFP, that the "invectives" at the origin of these incidents cease. The Prime Minister also called for the "withdrawal" of the "obstruction" amendments to the bill.
"We really want there to be a democratic debate on this text, that we can discuss argument against argument, project against project," the Prime Minister told AFP.
Elisabeth Borne demands "both a withdrawal of the amendments which have no other purpose than to obstruct and delay the progress of the text, and also that the debates be held on the merits and not in the invective". "The French deserve better", insisted the head of government, calling for "not to multiply the amendments" which delay the progress of the text and "not to multiply the incidents". “Many of the amendments are there simply to prevent the debate from moving forward and obviously I regret that. And I ask the oppositions to allow the examination of the text to progress, that the discussions can take place,” she added.
At the same time in the Assembly, the Green deputies announced through the voice of Sandrine Rousseau wanting to "withdraw amendments" to "move forward".
The left-wing Nupes coalition announced on Monday evening that it was withdrawing "a thousand amendments" to move forward with the review of pension reform, in response to Élisabeth Borne and her accusations of "obstruction". The Nupes had started to remove amendments before the Prime Minister's call, but there were still more than 14,000 amendments on the counter.
Suspension of the session and points of order, the Assembly regained its accents of the end of last week, with the exclusion for two weeks of another LFI, Thomas Portes, for a tweet where he had staged his foot posed on a ball with the effigy of Olivier Dussopt.
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