Bergé: The dissolution would allow a "clarification" if the pension reform is rejected

The leader of the Renaissance deputies Aurore Bergé said Thursday "convinced" that the pension reform would be voted on in the Assembly while pleading, in the event of rejection, for a dissolution which would allow a "clarification"

Bergé: The dissolution would allow a "clarification" if the pension reform is rejected

The leader of the Renaissance deputies Aurore Bergé said Thursday "convinced" that the pension reform would be voted on in the Assembly while pleading, in the event of rejection, for a dissolution which would allow a "clarification".

"My conviction is that we must go to the vote" today and "I am convinced that if we go to the vote, we will have a majority to vote for this reform", assured Cnews the deputy for Yvelines, before go to the emergency meeting organized on the subject at the Élysée.

"There is not a voice from our group that will be missing to vote for this reform", she also certified.

The threat of dissolution that Emmanuel Macron would have brandished Wednesday evening during a meeting in the event of rejection of the reform, according to several participants, is it blackmail? "No, it's a clarification," replied Ms. Bergé.

"Everyone understands that if we decide to go to the vote this afternoon (...) we don't have a majority in the National Assembly, there is a need for clarification," she added. , targeting LR deputies.

"I think for the clarity of the French right, they have to vote (the reform) and I honestly think in conscience that they will vote for this reason," she insisted.

"The only clarification that the President of the Republic can proceed with is a dissolution because that sends everyone back to the French and it is they who in the last resort, in the last resort, will decide", argued the deputy .

"Very well, let him dissolve," replied Marine Le Pen on BFMTV and RMC.

"Returning to the people never poses any problem for me so chick! That we are in the majority to reject this text and that we go to the elections, no difficulty", added the head of the RN deputies.

Emmanuel Macron's extremely unpopular pension reform should have its parliamentary epilogue on Thursday, with suspense still full on the outcome of the vote scheduled for the afternoon in the National Assembly.

03/16/2023 10:21:43 -         Paris (AFP) -         © 2023 AFP