From the perch, Yaël Braun-Pivet, from the Macronist ranks, justified herself on several occasions: “the Constitution, nothing but the Constitution, that is my role”. The measure for a return to the legal retirement age at 62 was first torpedoed in committee during a tight vote, then reintroduced via amendments.
The left and Liot had good hopes of turning the tide in the hemicycle. But “to the anger, the concern, the misunderstanding that we, deputies, tried here to relay, you responded by the passage in force”, still accused Bertrand Pancher, leader of the deputies Freedoms, Independents , Overseas and Territories (Liot), brandishing a Constitution. Unable to vote on a repeal, “we will call public opinion to witness,” he promised Wednesday.