The announcement of the holder of the perch is not a surprise. The President of the National Assembly Yaël Braun-Pivet announced, this Wednesday, June 7, that she was going to block the examination, in the hemicycle, of the measure of repeal of the retirement at 64 years.
“On these amendments to restore article 1, (which plans to go back to 62 years old, editor’s note), I am very clear: they will be declared inadmissible by myself during the day”, declared Yaël Braun-Pivet on BFMTV . “I apply the rule, nothing but the rule,” she added, an allusion to article 40 of the Constitution which prohibits any parliamentary proposal creating a burden on public finances.
The rest of the bill can be examined
The rest of the bill, carried by the independent group of deputies Liot and supported by most of the opposition, can still be examined on Thursday. But therefore without a possible vote on its flagship measure which aimed to repeal the decline in the legal age of departure to 64 years.
The Liot text fueled the flame of opponents of the reform promulgated in mid-April, even if the participation on Tuesday in the 14th day of mobilization was the lowest recorded in five months of demonstrations.
She considered the measure “unconstitutional”
The President of the National Assembly had already implied that she would block. “I will take my responsibilities”, she had assured several times in recent days, describing as “unconstitutional” the repeal of the 64 years.
The measure in question had already been challenged last week in committee, after a tight vote (38 votes against 34), but the oppositions expected to be able to replay this match Thursday in the hemicycle, by filing “reinstatement amendments” . It is to the latter that Yaël Braun-Pivet will obstruct, as authorized by the rules of the institution.