With only four days left in the National Assembly to debate the pension reform bill, Elisabeth Borne said on Tuesday February 14, 2023 that the debate was “prevented” by the thousands of amendments. yet to study. The live.
The essential
- The debates on the pension reform continue this Tuesday, February 14, 2023 in the National Assembly.
- The deputies still have more than 10,000 amendments to study and resume discussions to talk about article 2… out of 21!
- However, Friday evening, at midnight, the examination of the bill at the Bourbon palace will be finished, no matter if all the text could not be studied.
- Several calls have been made for the Nupes to withdraw a large part of its amendments in order to speed up parliamentary work and allow the study of article 7 which plans to push back the retirement age to 64 years.
- In the Assembly, Elisabeth Borne castigated a debate “prevented by the multiplicity of amendments and the multiplication of insults, invectives and the most serious accusations.”
- The latest information on the debates around the pension reform in the Assembly can be followed live on our site with the live video LCP.
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4:12 p.m. – “The French see a debate prevented” launches Borne
On the sidelines of the questions to the government which preceded the session, Elisabeth Borne tackled the deputies of La France insoumise, pointing them out as responsible for a “prevented debate”. “The French have asked for compromises, debates based on arguments and ideas. What do our compatriots see? A debate prevented by the multiplicity of amendments and the multiplication of insults, invectives and the most serious accusations”, a- she launched, in reference to the electric atmosphere at the Bourbon palace for a week.
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Pension reform is THE major societal project carried out by Emmanuel Macron. The President of the Republic undertook, in his program, to push back the minimum age of departure to 64 (compared to 62 today) after the end of discussions on the subject in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic. Covid. The abolition of certain special regimes had also been promised. But who is affected by the reform? With what impact? All the explanations in our dedicated articles.
Started on Monday February 6, 2023, the examination of the amending social security financing bill for 2023 (full name of the bill in which articles on pension reform are integrated) has already enabled the adoption of two articles out of the 21 (including the introductory article) in the bill. It is the introductory articlea technical article that outlines the bill and the costed explanations, as well as Prime articlewhich provides for the abolition of special pension schemes electricity and gas industries (IEG), the Autonomous Paris Transport Authority (RATP), notary clerks and employees (CRPCEN), the Banque de France, and members of the Economic, Social and Environmental Council (CESE) for agents who will be recruited from September 1, 2023.
The pension reform bill is the subject of fierce protest, both among the French and within the National Assembly. The hemicycle is split in two between the defenders and the opponents of this text, making the atmosphere electric at the Bourbon palace. While the government only has a relative majority in the lower house of Parliament, the reform carried out by Emmanuel Macron is not certain to pass easily and it could only be played with a few votes. So, how does your MP position itself vis-à-vis this text? Find out with our search engine.
For the time being, no vote on a motion, an article or an amendment related to this bill has been made in the presence of the 577 deputies. The hemicycle has never yet been truly full to decide on this text, hence the absence of a few parliamentarians in our table. It should however be noted that the elected representatives of the government majority (Renaissance, MoDem, Horizons) are in favor of the reform, that LR is divided on the subject and that the Nupes and the RN oppose it.