On the eve of the decision of the Constitutional Council, deputies and senators on the left launched Thursday, April 13 a second request for a referendum of shared initiative (RIP) on the reform of pensions, a text more “secure” in legal terms, affirm- them, that the first request on which the nine judges of the rue de Montpensier decide on Friday.
“The text has been deposited on the desk of the President of the Senate, Gérard Larcher”, declared the president of the socialist group in the Senate, Patrick Kanner, confirming information from Public Senate. “The objective is for this text to be sent to the Constitutional Council tomorrow, [Friday] before the possible promulgation of the reform,” he said.
“It is the same text” as the first request, supplemented by a second article “which creates an element of reform: a tax revenue linked to capital resources to secure the financing of the pay-as-you-go pension”. This is to compensate for the “possible weakness” of the first request.
The shared initiative referendum is a particularly complex procedure. Its deposit requires the signature of more than 185 deputies and senators. Some 250 parliamentarians had filed the first request. “Maybe RIP #1 will be validated, it’s not impossible, but after debate between left groups, we decided to add an article that results in greater security,” added Mr. Kanner .
“Belt and suspenders.” We want to secure the drafting in order to give ourselves the maximum of chances, this is the meaning of the filing of a second text, “confirmed a socialist source in the National Assembly. On Friday, the Constitutional Council must decide both whether or not to give the green light to this procedure and whether or not to censure the reform, or some of its provisions.
