Denouncing an “anti-democratic coup”, the left alliance Nupes responded with a motion of censure after the failure on Thursday of an attempt to repeal the pension at 64, which could not be done. subject to a vote in the National Assembly.
This bill, examined during a feverish session, had fueled the flame of the challenge to the pension reform, despite its promulgation in mid-April. But the oppositions failed to obtain a vote on the flagship measure of the text carried by the independent group Liot.
“In responsibility, we have decided to withdraw our text”, resigned the boss of the Liot group (Freedoms, Independents, Overseas and Territories) Bertrand Pancher, denouncing “the powerful attacks against Parliament”.
“We are not going to make a fool of ourselves by continuing the debate,” he said, annoyed, after more than two hours of eruptive exchanges but without the slightest vote. The flagship measure of the text had been rejected the day before by the President of the Assembly, Yaël Braun-Pivet, in the name of its “inadmissibility”.
“Faced with the anti-democratic coup” of the presidential camp, the left alliance Nupes announced in the process the filing of a motion of censure against the Borne government.
The left-wing deputies took the “oath never to give up the fight against retirement at 64”, added the boss of the LFI group Mathilde Panot.
Their motion, which should be examined by the Assembly at the beginning of next week, does not thrill the Liot group, whose previous motion had narrowly failed in March.
“They are completely legitimate to do so and in the group, no doubt there will be colleagues who will vote for it and others not (…) but I do not believe that this motion of censure will succeed at this stage. “, estimated on LCP the deputy Benjamin Saint-Huile, spokesperson for Liot.
The Rassemblement national group is also considering, for its part, the filing of such a motion. “When a government allows itself to attack democratic functioning to such an extent, it deserves censorship”, according to its leader Marine Le Pen.
The oppositions have long targeted President Braun-Pivet, who blocked the examination of the repeal measure, deemed unconstitutional because it creates a burden on public finances.
“From this lowering of Parliament can only emerge disinterest in our institutions, and in the worst case, anger and violence”, warned Charles de Courson (Liot).
“You are damaging, you are crushing parliamentary democracy”, thundered the boss of the communist deputies André Chassaigne.
But, retorted Eric Woerth in the presidential camp, “the constitutional heckling wanted by Liot and LFI, that’s the real attack on democracy”.
From the perch, Ms. Braun-Pivet, from the Macronist ranks, justified herself on several occasions: “the Constitution, nothing but the Constitution, that is my role”.
The Minister of Labor Olivier Dussopt for his part pointed to an “almost nihilistic” and “empty” proposal from Liot.
“You are not offering anything other than to discard because you have no common alternative project”, he launched to the supporters of the text, from the Nupes to the RN via some LRs.
The measure for a return to the legal retirement age at 62 was first torpedoed in committee during a tight vote, then reintroduced via amendments.
The left and Liot had good hopes of turning the tide in the hemicycle if they had been able to be the subject of a vote.
Even adopted by the Assembly, the repeal proposal would have had only a slim chance of succeeding at the legislative level, the Macronists have constantly argued. While worrying about the political signal that a victory of the oppositions would have sent.
With the end of this parliamentary sequence, two days after a 14th day of social mobilization whose participation was the lowest recorded in five months of demonstrations, the executive hopes to be able to turn the page on pensions.
The only moment of agreement on Thursday: the deputies observed a minute of silence, after the knife attack in Annecy which left six injured, including four young children.
The president of the Renaissance deputies Aurore Bergé considered that the “battle of rag pickers” in the hemicycle seemed “totally out of step with the dread” in the country, attracting the wrath of the opposition.
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06/08/2023 21:43:25 – Paris (AFP) – © 2023 AFP
