Tenth and last day of debates in the hemicycle. The deputies begin, Friday, February 17, their final day of examination of the pension reform, in an atmosphere which promises to be electric as the chances of addressing the key measure on the postponement of the age are moving away. At midnight and wherever the debates on Emmanuel Macron’s flagship reform are, the curtain will fall in the National Assembly and the text will go to the Senate. Follow our live.
Article 7 still uncertain. Will the deputies have time or not to approach the famous article, at the heart of the text with its decried postponement from 62 to 64 years of the retirement age? Nothing is less sure. More than 3,000 amendments remain to be discussed before this article 7, including a good part coming from the Insoumis. The left-wing Nupes alliance is divided on whether to withdraw them, as the unions are pressing.
Declining mobilization in the street. The demonstrations gathered Thursday 1.3 million people according to the CGT and 440,000 according to the Ministry of the Interior. This is the lowest figure since the start of the mobilization, pending March 7 when the unions threaten to put the country “off” if the government does not withdraw the reform.
The motion of censure of the RN soon examined. The decision on when to vote will be taken in the morning. All the other groups assured that they would vote against this motion, denouncing a “political coup”.