the Nupes announces that it will withdraw a thousand amendments to the National Assembly

The four groups of the New People’s Ecological and Social Union (Nupes) in the National Assembly will withdraw a thousand amendments in order to speed up the debates on pension reform, their representatives announced on Monday February 13 in a press conference. common to the National Assembly.

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The withdrawal of these amendments aims to vote more quickly on article 2 of the reform, with the desire to arrive before the weekend at article 7 which relates to the postponement of the legal age of departure to 64 years. “We withdraw more than 1,000 amendments to move forward, we take note of the government’s lack of response to our questions“, declared the president of the PS group Boris Vallaud during this press conference. “We now want to discuss funding because other avenues are possible”.

There are still 15,600 amendments to be considered in the National Assembly on this pension reform, the vast majority of which were tabled by Nupes. Elisabeth Borne asked Monday evening, in a statement on “withdrawal” amendments of“obstruction” on the pension reform project examined in the Assembly, which is also demanded by the unions.

Monday evening, Green MP Sandrine Rousseau assured that her group would withdraw amendments to speed up the pace. “We want to go to article 7, it’s very clear”also assured the leader of his group, Cyrielle Chatelain.