Renaissance deputies who vote against the text or abstain will be excluded from the parliamentary group

Pressure is mounting on majority MPs as the legislative journey to pension reform progresses slowly. The elected representatives of the Renaissance group who vote against the pension reform or abstain from commenting on the text will be excluded from the group, franceinfo learned on Tuesday March 7, confirming information from LCP. The deputies concerned would also lose their place in committee, acted on Monday the office of the majority group.

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The warning is directly addressed to the “slingers” of the Renaissance group (ex-La République en Marche) who would be tempted to default when the National Assembly will have to decide on the text after its examination in the Senate and its passage in the Joint Joint Committee (CMP). These reluctant deputies are found in particular on the left wing of the majority, such as Stella Dupont, Cécile Rilhac or even the former minister Barbara Pompili. According to BFMTV and Le Figaro, the latter announced Tuesday morning in a group meeting that she would abstain. It would therefore be directly affected by the exclusion. “It’s the classic and usual frameworkwe sweep within the Renaissance group. As for the implementation of this announcement, that’s another story…”

Each vote will be valuable for the majority

While there is no absolute majority since last June, each vote will be precious for the Renaissance-MoDem-Horizons coalition, favorable to the reform. The Nupes and National Rally groups have already announced that they will vote against, while doubt remains about the unity of Les Républicains deputies in support of this emblematic text of Emmanuel Macron’s second five-year term. “The majority must find 40 votes in the National Assembly, and of the 61 LR deputies, for the moment I do not feel it”confided an LR parliamentarian to franceinfo on Tuesday morning.

“The question that will arise for the government in the days to come is 49.3 or not”, according to the same right-wing MP. Uncertain of having a majority in favor of pension reform on the benches of the National Assembly, the government could resort to this article of the Constitution, which Elisabeth Borne has already used a dozen times since the start of the legislature. . Adopted without being voted on, the reform would then have “a democratic vice”warned Laurent Berger, boss of the CFDT, on France Inter on Monday.