Laurent Berger warns the government. The use of 49.3 to pass the pension reform in the National Assembly could have one of the consequences in the actions of struggle of opponents of the bill, he warned Tuesday on the eve of an eighth action day.
“The assessment of the CFDT will not be the same at all if the process is 49.3 or (…) a solemn vote”, again warned the boss of the union on RTL, asked about a possible continuation of the mobilization in the event of a vote or recourse to the constitutional weapon of 49.3, which allows a text to be passed without a vote in the National Assembly. He added that the intersyndicale would take a decision on Thursday on the follow-up to the movement.
“Everything that is constitutional is legal, (…) but it would be a democratic vice (…) We need that at some point, the national representation expresses itself on this pension reform”, declared the union leader. He was speaking on the eve of the eighth and final day of action before a possible vote on the text in Parliament on Thursday.
Rally planned in front of the Assembly on Thursday
After the adoption of the text in the Senate on Saturday evening, the final parliamentary sequence will open on Wednesday with the Joint Joint Committee (CMP), bringing together elected officials from both chambers. If there is agreement on a compromise text, it will be submitted Thursday to the Senate and then to the National Assembly, where the government is far from sure of having a majority.
Asked about the actions planned on this occasion, Laurent Berger confirmed that the main union officials planned to gather on Thursday in front of the Assembly during the examination of the text. “Given the opposition and the anger that are beginning to rise in the heads of the workers, 49.3 is a democratic vice, so we can still avoid that, we have to go to the vote, we have to go to the end of a process democratic which has been very evaded”, he hammered.