The deputies deleted on Wednesday in committee the key article of a bill repealing the decline in the retirement age to 64, a stage victory for the presidential camp before the examination of the text on 8 June in the Assembly Chamber.
Amendments deleting this article 1 were adopted by 38 votes against 34. But the text, carried by the independent group Liot and whose examination continues, is not buried for all that.
Voices of the majority and LR
This first ballot was narrowly won on Wednesday in the Social Affairs Committee thanks in particular to the votes of the LR group which added to those of the majority – only two right-wing deputies out of eight joined their votes to those of the other oppositions to defend the repeal of 64 years.
“I am appalled, that means we are not going to vote on this text. Shame on the LRs on this one, they are only betraying their voters”, reacted MP RN Laure Lavalette.
The left, LFI at the forefront, counter-attacked by tabling more than a thousand amendments to the following article of the bill, in the hope of preventing the debates from coming to an end. “If we don’t have time to discuss the whole text, it will return to its original state during the session, there may be an interest in doing that”, explained LFI deputy Alexis Corbière.
While the Liot group was reluctant to adopt this strategy, the situation was very uncertain at midday.