The National Assembly’s Social Affairs Committee examined this Wednesday, May 31, the bill requesting the repeal of the pension reform. A text that the presidential camp was determined to scuttle. What he finally managed to do, but at the cost of a new fierce battle with the opposition.
From the first minutes of the meeting, the tone rose and the outbursts of voice reached the gardens of the Assembly. Methodically, the presidential alliance, with the support of the LR (Les Républicains), empty of its substance the bill supported in particular by Nupes which, after having seen hundreds of its amendments deleted, decided to leave the debates.
“ They overstepped the regulations of the National Assembly to achieve their goals and not lose a vote. So the only weapon we have left today is to start from this commission to denounce its factitious nature. “, explains Sandrine Rousseau, ecologist deputy.
The independent group Liot, which carried the text, is just as outraged, like its president Bertrand Pancher: “ This is my 4th term as a parliamentarian, I have never seen so many attempts to curb the functioning of the National Assembly by the majority. »
But the president of the Renaissance group, Aurore Bergé, defends the strategy of the presidential camp step by step: “ We are in strict compliance with our institutions, the Constitution, our rules of law and our operation. “And returns the responsibility for the heckling to the Nupes:” We have been subjected to threats, intimidation, insults, maneuvers, scheming. And we just answered with democracy, which is a vote. A vote which was therefore favorable to the Macron camp. The main provision of the text, the repeal of the pension reform, has been deleted.
Call for mobilization on June 6
Another setback for the opposition in the battle for pensions, but they want to continue the battle in the more or less long term. Charles de Courson still wants to believe it. His bill still has a chance of being voted on in public session in a week. But MP Liot is no longer master of the fate of his text, which could be declared inadmissible by the President of the Assembly Yaël Braun-Pivet: “ If she does that. It will create a precedent that can kill all bills, including those of the majority of the moment. »
On the side of Nupes, it is hoped that the social mobilization of June 6 at the call of the unions will put pressure on Yaël Braun-Pivet. “ On June 6, we will need maximum popular pressure to ensure that the President of the Assembly does not draw a pretext and prevent us from debating, from passing this law », Calls Mathilde Panot, president of the Insoumis group.
But a communist deputy recognizes it, the chances are slim, it is therefore necessary to think about the continuation, and quickly, because the National Rally, once again emerged spared from the virulent battle in the Assembly, continues to advance its pawns. ” I fear that for the French, there is only one hope, it is the vote and the arrival of Marine Le Pen in 2027 who will come back (sic) on this unfair proposal “, assures Laure Lavalette, deputy RN.
But who knows, the repeal of the pension reform could take place before 2027. Several opposition groups have indeed announced their intention to present new legislative proposals in this direction from September 2023.