Nine opposition leaders ask Gabriel Attal for a precise timetable for a major law on old age

These various presidents of parliamentary groups wanted to increase pressure on the executive, a few hours before the vote on a majority text on this subject.

Nine heads of parliamentary groups, from the left and the right, demanded, on Tuesday March 19, from Gabriel Attal a precise timetable for a major law on old age. While the proposed law for “aging well” must be submitted to a final vote in the National Assembly, Tuesday at the end of the day, the socialist deputies announced Monday that they would table a motion of rejection prior to the text, which ‘they consider insufficient.

They would only agree to withdraw it if the Prime Minister announced a precise timetable for a major law on autonomy, explaining that “no longer satisfied with small steps” on the dependency of the elderly.

Bruno Retailleau and Olivier Marleix among the signatories

Tuesday, nine leaders of parliamentary groups co-signed a letter to the Prime Minister requesting a “solemn commitment, associated with a precise timetable, concerning the tabling and examination of this bill relating to old age”.

These are Boris Vallaud and Patrick Kanner (socialist groups in the Assembly and the Senate), Mathilde Panot (LFI group in the Assembly), Cyrielle Chatelain and Guillaume Gontard (ecological groups in the Assembly and the Senate), Cécile Cukierman (communist group in the Senate), Bertrand Pancher (Liot group in the Assembly), but also the bosses of the two LR groups, Bruno Retailleau (Senate) and Olivier Marleix (Assembly).

“We will debate together (…) on strategies, governance issues and of course the question of financing, (…) and we will take the necessary measures, including legislative measures”, declared Tuesday in the Assembly Fadila Khattabi, Minister Delegate in charge of the Elderly. The executive has repeatedly postponed this major law, promised by Emmanuel Macron and supposed to outline the contours of multi-year programming for the sector. But its future remains unclear, while the budgetary context is tense.