In the National Assembly, the examination of the pension reform project resumed on Monday as it ended last week: with a slippage from La France insoumise.
Last week ended in cries and confusion with the suspension for two weeks of the Insoumis MP Thomas Portes, photographed with a ball bearing the image of Olivier Dussopt under his foot. This began with a new incident, once again involving the Minister of Labor and a deputy La France insoumise.
It took barely an hour and a half of discussions before the Insoumis deputy Aurélien Saintoul slipped. ” You are an impostor and murderer “, he launched in the middle of the cries to Olivier Dussopt. The session is immediately interrupted. The minister, touched, stormed out of the hemicycle.
” It becomes unbearable. You can’t do politics like that, it’s not possible. These are unspeakable acts “, denounced the deputy of the presidential camp Bruno Milienne, outraged. The fury was also heard among the allies of La France insoumise, like André Chassaigne. ” I feel hurt, even humiliated. I say it. To say such things is absolutely unacceptable. “, got carried away the president of the communist group in the Assembly.
” The French deserve better »
Aurélien Saintoul then presented ” public apology “, for remarks “ displaced “. Apologies that the Minister, warmly applauded on his return to the hemicycle, said ” hear “, but without ” forgive “. The chairman of the session, the RN Sébastien Chenu, imposed on the Insoumis deputy a call to order with entry in the minutes, i.e. the withdrawal of a quarter of his parliamentary allowance for one month. A heavier sanction could be pronounced in office, the highest authority of the National Assembly.
This new slippage illustrates in any case the intense tension in which the debates in the Assembly have been taking place since they kicked off at the beginning of last week. ” The French deserve better “Commented Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne to Agence France-Presse, calling for “ do not multiply the amendments which delay the progress of the text and not to multiply the incidents “.
Recalling that the deputies were only considering article 2 and that there remained “ thousands of amendments before the vote of the first part and the examination of article 7 on the postponement of the age from 62 to 64, she expressed the wish for “a debate where we understand the issues and we can also highlight the proposals of each other”.
In the evening, the left-wing Nupes coalition announced that it was withdrawing a thousand amendments to advance in the examination of the text. She had started to remove before the call of the head of government. There were still more than 14,000 amendments on the counter after the Nupes announcement.
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(And with AFP)