Emmanuel Macron and his government have decided to trigger article 49.3 of the Constitution to have the pension reform adopted. The oppositions announce that they will table motions of censure.
Elisabeth Borne engaged the responsibility of her government on Thursday March 16 in the National Assembly by resorting to article 49.3 of the Constitution to have the pension reform adopted. A decision that provoked many political reactions.
Marine Le Pen denounces “a total failure for Emmanuel Macron”
“We are obviously going to table a motion of censure”reacts Marine Le Pen following the government’s decision to trigger 49.3 on pension reform. “This use is an extraordinary admission of weakness”according to the president of the group of RN deputies. “It’s a total failure for Emmanuel Macron”, she added.
On Twitter, the president of the National Rally, Jordan Bardella denounces “a democratic robbery committed by an isolated government”.
“An authoritarian shift”, deplores Mathilde Panot
The president of the LFI group in the National Assembly, Mathilde Panot underlines on franceinfo “an authoritarian shift”. She believes that “We are on the first day of the end of Emmanuel Macron’s five-year term. Using authoritarianism as they are doing to push through a pension reform that no one wants is an admission of supreme weakness”she explains in the room of the four columns of the National Assembly. “Using 49.3 is a sign that they are pushing the country into a regime crisis”, adds Mathilde Panot. For the patron saint of LFI deputies in the Assembly, “nothing is over”. She assures that she will go “with other groups file a motion of censure”.
Still on franceinfo, the LFI deputy for Seine-Saint-Denis and chairman of the Finance Committee of the National Assembly Éric Coquerel believes that “it is clearly an anti-democratic coup, since it consists in not having the National Assembly vote because we know we are in the minority”. “It is a terrible defeat for Mr. Macron, for his government, because it is again for him the impossibility of getting the Assembly to vote”, Judge Éric Coquerel. According to him, the Head of State “is a minority in the Assembly”. “We know that he is in an extremely minority position among the people on this reform and I think that will encourage social mobilization”assures the deputy Insoumis. “
“We are going to experience a resurgence of mobilization. I think we can end this reform.”
Éric Coquerel, Member of Parliament for Seine-Saint-Denisat franceinfo
Jean-Luc Mélenchon calls for continued mobilization
“This text has no parliamentary legitimacy“, denounces Jean-Luc Mélenchon, from a Parisian demonstration, “United unions call for continued action. This is what we will focus on”adds the former presidential candidate, who still asks for the “withdrawal” of reform. “We have a good chance of having the last word”, he believes.
Olivier Faure asks for the withdrawal of the reform project
Olivier Faure, first secretary of the Socialist Party, denounces “the whims” by Emmanuel Macron. He asks the President of the Republic to withdraw his project.
Same opinion on the side of Boris Vallaud, socialist deputy des Landes and chairman of the group in the Assembly. He sees in the use of this 49.3 “one more coup for a brutal and unjust pension reform”. Believing that “the ‘majority’ is not a majority in the country, so it is no longer in the Assembly.”
Republicans will not vote for a no-confidence motion, says Eric Ciotti
“We will not vote on any motion of censure”assures the president of Les Républicain Eric Ciotti after the meeting of the LR group. “We don’t want to add chaos to chaos”justifies the leader of the Republicans. “We will not associate ourselves with any motion of censure”he said, before indicating that it was a decision “very majority” of the group of LR deputies. “The crisis situation in the country would not support a fatal blow to our democracy and our institutions today”he continued. “We will never participate in a coalition of extremes whose sole purpose is to carry the revolution, to destroy our institutions”added the number one Republican.
For his part, Aurélien Pradié, ddeputy of the Lot and ex-number 2 of the LR dismissed from his functions by Eric Ciotti, assures the microphone of BFMTV that he will “ask the question during the weekend” to find out if he will vote for the motion of censure. He believes that Emmanuel Macron and Élisabeth Borne have committed a “gigantic democratic fault”.
“We had contempt” denounces Sandra Regol, EELV MP
MP EELV Sandra Regol denounced this Thursday, March 16 on franceinfo a “incredible moment of denial of democracy”after the government’s recourse to 49.3 by Elisabeth Borne to pass the pension reform without a vote. “This 49.3 is the sign of an inability to have a majority on a project”added the MP. “We had no dialogue, we had contempt”.
Julien Bayou, EELV deputy, sees “a kind of robbery and brutalization of institutions and a deep contempt for public opinion and the French people”. For him, Emmanuel Macron “undermines the social cohesion of the country” For “his personal ego”.
“The failure of the LRs” for Xavier Iacovelli, Senator Renaissance
“It is above all the failure of the LRs of the National Assembly who cannot come to an agreement”reacts on franceinfo Xavier Iacovelli, Renaissance senator from Hauts-de-Seine and member of the joint joint committee on pension reform, after the use of 49.3. “It was their division that caused thisinsists Xavier Iacovelli. Wednesday evening, we thought we could save it thanks to the contributions of the Senate and the joint committee. We reached a compromise that seemed satisfactory.”
For his part, Guillaume Kasbarian, Renaissance deputy for Eure-et-Loir and chairman of the Economic Affairs Committee, “conceives that it is an admission of failure to build a large majority”. For him, the government’s recourse to 49.3 to pass the pension reform without a vote “is the best option, in any case the least bad and I support it”he adds. “The consequences of giving up would be significant. The consequences of failure on this text are potentially devastating economically and politically.”