If until the end, the deputies who oppose the pension reform refine their amendments, this Thursday, the Liot group proposes other laws that the majority also wants to reject. Jean-Rémi Baudot’s political brief.
If for a month, the soap opera of the bill on the repeal of the pension reform occupies the political world, Thursday, June 8, it is above all the “parliamentary niche” of the Liot group. And it’s up to them to decide the agenda. Thus, until midnight, seven texts are thus planned in public session.
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The proposal of the independent group on the repeal of the retirement at 64 years will be the first studied. On the agenda, the second text proposes to create citizen consultations at the departmental level to allow citizens to decide in which region they want to live. If the text is supported by the opposition, this bill was rejected in committee, in particular by the Renaissance presidential group.
More delicate, the third text proposes “to broaden the base of the FTT”, the tax on financial transactions. It is a tax introduced in 2012 by Nicolas Sarkozy, the French version of the Tobin tax. This is a very small tax on financial transactions which today only affects shares on the stock market. However, the Liot group wants to extend this tax to other financial products such as high frequency trading or derivatives.
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Unsurprisingly, this idea is supported by France Insoumise. Aurélie Trouvé, the LFI rapporteur, recalls that even the City, in London, has such a tax and that it brings in 4 billion per year. More surprisingly, this bill, or PPL in parliamentary jargon, receives the support of Horizons, the group of deputies of Édouard Philippe, who even proposes that this idea come back during the next finance law. And, there again, Renaissance is against it. The presidential party argues that a financial tax is only effective at European level.
But these texts, you will have little chance to hear about them. During a “parliamentary niche”, the debates stop at midnight. Not a second longer. The first text on pensions obviously risks occupying the whole day in an atmosphere that promises to be stormy, even explosive. We will probably not hear about the text on plastics which does not please the majority, nor a text on Water and Sanitation or another on the Overseas Territories.
Obviously, as for all the laws which arrive in the hemicycle, all these texts have been studied, worked on, debated in committee for days. But there is a strong chance that pensions will take over.