In the National Assembly, the debate on pension reform enters its second week. Can we hope that the climate will calm down a bit? Renaud Dély’s editorial.
The contrast was striking on Saturday with massive and peaceful parades all over the country, the day after another day of vociferations at the Palais-Bourbon. The secretary general of the CFDT, Laurent Berger, also opposed Sunday “street dignity” At “dismal spectacle” of the Assembly. Understand: he wants the deputies to pull themselves together.
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It must be said that for the time being, the cries, boos and howls of all kinds take the place of debate. The Insoumis are particularly attacking the Minister of Labour, Olivier Dussopt. A deputy, Thomas Portes, even saw fit to post a photo on social networks where, wearing his tricolor scarf, he proudly set foot on a balloon decorated with the face of the minister. And the 20,000 amendments, mostly tabled by Nupes, have completed the examination of the text which is only in article 2.
Annoyances at all levels
The opposition accuses the government of wanting to shorten the debates: a maximum of 50 days for the entire parliamentary discussion, based on the now article 47-1 of the Constitution. Mathilde Panot, the leader of the Insoumis, also accuses the majority of taking the slightest incident as a pretext to interrupt the discussion. Perhaps, but these repeated incidents do exist. And it is indeed the Insoumis who create them. What annoys not only the government, but also the unions, and even part of the Nupes. Because on the left, more and more voices want to stop this guerrilla warfare to discuss the substance, and in particular article 7 of the text, the one which postpones the legal age of retirement from 62 to 64 years.
With the desire to defend another pension reform and above all to embody an alternative government. Because if the anger of public opinion hostile to the reform of Elisabeth Borne ends up translating into resentment at the polls, it is feared that the RN will benefit from it, for lack of credible competition on the left.
When the street offers a lesson in democracy to deputies who sink into hysteria, and even Marine Le Pen dares to call the Nupes a la “serenity“, there is everything to fear from the outcome of the next elections.