Pensions: the Liot group seeks to repeal the reform

April 18, 2023

The centrist group Liot, already at the initiative of a cross-partisan government censure motion which had failed by 9 votes, “is seriously considering” putting on the agenda of the National Assembly a bill to repeal the reform pensions, a group source told AFP on Tuesday.

This bill would only need a simple majority to be approved, unlike a motion of censure which requires an absolute majority.

Socialist parliamentarians have already proposed a text to this effect in the wake of the partial validation of the Constitutional Council, to repeal the reform promulgated on Friday by Emmanuel Macron.

But the “parliamentary niche” of PS deputies having already passed, they do not have the opportunity to dictate the agenda of a day in the lower house before the next legislature.

Unlike the Liot group, whose “niche” will take place on June 8 and whose text could be different from that of the socialists, but would have the same object.

“You have to remember that nobody voted on Article 7 in the Assembly, we really think we can win,” said a source within the group.

The Liot deputies will have to file by April 20 the texts which will constitute their niche according to a source in the group. The possible proposal will then have to be validated by the services of the Assembly to be able to appear in the niche of the group.

The next opposition niche is that of the Communist deputies at the beginning of May, but the latter had to submit their texts before the decision of the Constitutional Council.