the President of the National Assembly will oppose any amendment resulting in a vote to repeal the postponement of the legal retirement age to 64

The President of the National Assembly announced, Wednesday, June 7, that she was going to block the examination, in the hemicycle, of the measure of repeal of the retirement at 64 years. “On these amendments reinstating section 1 [qui prévoit de repasser à 62 ans], I am very clear: they will be declared inadmissible by myself during the day”said Yaël Braun-Pivet on BFMTV.

“I apply the rule, nothing but the rule”, she added, an allusion to article 40 of the Constitution which prohibits any parliamentary proposal creating a burden on public finances. Article 1 of the Liot group bill will thus be declared inadmissible. “This article 1 should never have been examined by the National Assembly because it creates charges”, she added.

The rest of Liot’s proposal can be considered

The rest of the bill, carried by the independent group of deputies Liot and supported by most of the opposition, can still be examined on Thursday. But therefore without a possible vote on its flagship measure which aimed to repeal the decline in the legal age of departure to 64 years.

The Liot text fueled the flame of opponents of the reform promulgated in mid-April, even if the participation on Tuesday in the 14th day of mobilization was the lowest recorded in five months of demonstrations. The repeal of the 64-year-old had already been challenged last week in committee, after a tight vote (38 votes against 34), but the oppositions counted on being able to replay this match Thursday in the hemicycle, by filing “reinstatement amendments”.