Nupes is not about to give up on pension reform. After the failure of its attempt to repeal the retirement at 64, the left alliance announced, Thursday, June 8, that it wanted to table a motion of censure against the government, with a view to a vote at the beginning of next week in The national assembly.

“Faced with the anti-democratic coup […], all the groups of the Nupes will carry a motion of censure which should be examined at the beginning of next week”, declared, in front of the press, Mathilde Panot, the boss of the deputies LFI , surrounded by its partners.

The independent group Liot (Freedoms, Independents, Overseas and Territories), which carried the proposed repeal law withdrawn in the face of the impossibility of voting on its flagship measure, has not yet decided whether to join on the initiative. “There is nothing left in the text, except obviously the amendments of the presidential minority. In responsibility, we have decided to withdraw our text, “said group boss Bertrand Pancher to the press, after more than two hours of eruptive exchanges.

“Discussions are still ongoing” with this group, whose motion of no confidence was narrowly rejected in March, said Mathilde Panot. But the new motion has a slim chance of bringing down the government.

The Nupes groups made an “oath on Thursday to never give up the fight against retirement at 64 and to continue on our common goal of the right to retire at 60,” added the leader of the group. LFI. “We do not conceive that there is an end point to the democratic process as decreed by the Prime Minister”, added Boris Vallaud, the boss of the socialist deputies.

He promised to continue “whenever possible, by all the means at our disposal […] to fight against this iniquitous reform”, believing that “in the weeks and months to come, there will be many opportunities to defend the French and the French”.

For the leader of the Green MPs, Cyrielle Chatelain, “the government and Emmanuel Macron used the Constitution against the French”.

Communist MP Pierre Dharréville described Thursday’s session in the Assembly as “a day of vertigo for the Republic”. “The presidential majority, which is not a majority in this hemicycle, has decided to prevent the National Assembly from deciding, and from the start, that has been its objective,” he said. An “institutional imbalance is taking hold, deeply worrying for democracy”.