Accept a debate until the vote, at the risk of a snub? Prevent discussions from succeeding in the Hemicycle, promise of new accusations in contempt of Parliament? The position to be taken in the face of the bill by the Libertés, Indépendants, Outre-Mer et Territoires (LIOT) group, expected in the National Assembly on June 8 and aimed at the repeal of the latest pension reform, was adopted by the majority Tuesday, May 16: everything will be done to avoid a high-risk election with high symbolic significance.
At the end of a joint meeting, the three groups supporting the executive – Renaissance, MoDem, Horizons – acted on an offensive strategy against a text that they even dream of not seeing on the agenda. Their weapon: Article 40 of the Constitution, which does not consider “not admissible” legislative proposals and amendments likely to lead to “a reduction in public resources” Or “the creation or aggravation of a public office”. Its posture barely harmonized, the majority therefore insisted on the cost of the repeal, estimated according to its members between 15 billion and 22 billion euros.
No more procrastination and the wish of certain defenders of the pension reform to accept the debate with the opposition. “Very clearly and very clearly, our deputies are saying one simple thing: we are on the side of respect for our institutions and our Constitution”, repeated Tuesday Aurore Bergé, leader of the Renaissance group. Even if it means overhanging the President of the National Assembly, from its ranks, Yaël Braun-Pivet.
The elected representative of Yvelines refused on Wednesday to question the decision rendered by the Bureau of the institution in favor of the admissibility of the bill. “Her role is totally transpartisan, it is not up to her to decide at the basenuance the MoDem deputy of Yvelines Bruno Millienne. But it is our responsibility as parliamentarians to enforce the Constitution, and not to open the door tomorrow to anything big on public finances. “We are going to be told that it is blockage or something else, but we are not serious about balanced budgets”demines its group president, Jean-Paul Mattei.
“Obstruction”
The Constitution just erected as a barrier against the repeal of the pension reform, the opposition quickly denounced the“obstruction” of a majority “febrile” faced with the prospect of a first vote at the Palais-Bourbon on a major project of Emmanuel Macron’s second term – the text had been adopted in mid-March by resorting to Article 49.3 of the Constitution, which allows the adoption of a text without a vote by engaging the responsibility of the government. “It’s amazing to hear MPs want to prevent legislation”mocks the Communist MP for Bouches-du-Rhône Pierre Dharréville, deploring a “trampling of Parliament” to escape a “democratic sanction”. “We are defending democracy in the face of a major political and social crisishammered Bertrand Pancher, president of the LIOT group. Our text must allow[en] come out the top. »
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