four deputies of the presidential majority including Barbara Pompili leave the Renaissance group

On this twelfth day of mobilization against the pension reform, Thursday, April 13, four deputies of the presidential majority leave the Renaissance group in the National Assembly, according to a modification made this Thursday to the Official Journal. This modification comes on the eve of the decision of the Constitutional Council on the pension reform.

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These are the deputies Mireille Clapot, elected in the first constituency of the Drôme since 2017, Stella Dupont, elected in the second constituency of Maine-et-Loire since 2017, Barbara Pompili, elected in the second constituency of the Somme since 2012 , and Cécile Rilhac, elected in the third constituency of Val-d’Oise since 2017. However, they remain related to the Renaissance group.

Barbara Pompili, EELV MP from 2012 to 2017 then LREM since 2017, was Secretary of State for Biodiversity under François Hollande, then Minister for Ecological Transition in the government of Jean Castex from 2020 to 2022. She has always expressed reservations about the pension reform. “We cannot make a reform against the population”declared the former minister of Emmanuel Macron in January 2023.