Left-wing senators do not want Article 7 to be examined in the Senate before the March 7 mobilization. They expect a movement of magnitude to weigh in the debates.
The examination of the text on the pension reform resumes Friday, March 3 in the Senate. The senators will begin to examine the merits of the project. The majority on the right intends to put its two cents in the rewriting. The left, she wants to control the calendar to avoid reaching the vote of article 7, which relates to the postponement of the legal age to 64 years, before March 7, date of the next day of mobilization where the union hopes to block the country.
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“Item 7 must wait for 7”: beyond the formula, we must let the mobilization enlighten the debates, according to the boss of the environmental senators Guillaume Gontard. “The mobilization of March 7 will be important and massive”warns the senator from Isère, “it’s rather interesting that it takes place before this speech by French men and women who will need to express themselves in the street. So there will be this time. And then there will be time of political responsibility”.
“We say there are still prospects and we can still win.”
Laurence Rossignol, socialist senator from Oiseat franceinfo
A France at a standstill, as the unions want, can also support the arguments of the left. According to the socialist Laurence Rossignol, this can change the situation in the Senate: “Often, I say that the French do not want reform. At the same time, they think that the government will end up having it adopted. reform and together, we will roll back the government.”
But for Bruno Retailleau, the boss of the Republicans, the majority group in the Senate, this will not change anything: “If we Republicans vote on this article, it will be voted on in the Senate and we have to vote. Our job is to vote. It’s not endless discussions.”
The debates must begin Friday on article 1, the abolition of the special regimes that the right wants to accelerate, at the risk of tensing up the strikers.