RN’s bill with a view to canceling the pension reform did not get support from the left in the Social Committee on Wednesday. The alternates, on the other hand, took care not to reject the entire text, which could block its path to examination in the half-cycle.
“Honestly, I can’t see myself pressing a button to say no to the repeal of the pension reform, I wouldn’t know how to explain it to my constituents”one of the pillars of the New People’s Front told us a few weeks ago.
But this MP may not have to ask the question, because the Bill (PPL) to restore the retirement age to 62, which the RN is preparing to table in its niche on October 31, was rejected in Social Affairs on Wednesday morning. committee.
A left-wing text on November 28
The ecologist Sandrine Rousseau and the socialist Jérôme Guedj chose to oppose it, and the other left-wing elected representatives chose not to participate in the vote.
Only the Communist Yannick Monnet voted in favor, while acknowledging that his group was divided on the issue. Fabien Roussel assured us on Tuesday: “The RN is setting a trap for us and I won’t fall for it. The French are asking for repeal and they don’t care where it comes from.”
A position not shared by Eric Coquerel, the LFI president of the Finance Commission. “We are not ready to give points to the far right”he assured us on Friday morning in the morning show in the public senate.
And to add: “As for the vote in the session, we will give our position later, but it must be said that this is all a scam”.
“We do things right”
In fact, Insoumis explains in substance that even if the text of the RN is voted on in the Assembly, no niche will ever welcome it in the Senate. The RN has no group and there is little chance that one of the groups formed will welcome the text, which should therefore not be able to complete its legislative process.
The left-wing text, which will be presented to the assembly on November 28, will, on the other hand, be received in the senate in a communist niche and then in the assembly at second reading in an ecologist niche.
“We do things right”smiles Fabien Roussel, who, however, clarifies that he would have liked the left to support the RN text to encourage Marine Le Pen’s group to bring its votes to the future text from the left, which otherwise has no chance of being adopted .
RN could withdraw its text
It remains to be seen what the left’s position will be during the vote in the session. On Tuesday, the Socialist deputies resolved the issue in a press release : “We neither vote nor join any initiative of the National Rally. Last July we were elected as part of the Republican Front. We remain true to our conduct”they said.
The other Ecology, PC and LFI groups remain divided. But perhaps they do not have to take a position, because if the two main articles in the text, which aim to reduce the retirement age to 62, have in fact been deleted, the MPs who are members of the Social Committee have made sure not to reject the text since block.
This maneuver will force the RN to table amendments to reinstate its repeal proposal, with a very high risk that the President of the Assembly Yaël Braun-Pivet will judge them unacceptable on a financial level.
Faced with this impasse, Marine Le Pen’s group could resign itself to removing this flagship text from the agenda of its parliamentary niche on October 31. A relief for left-wing MPs who did not have to suffer the wrath of their constituents.
