two chaotic weeks at the Assembly

At midnight one, on the night of Friday February 17 to Saturday February 18, at the end of a debate which could never be concluded, the Minister of Labor has the last word. Red with anger towards the left of the Hemicycle, he claims not to have cracked. Article 7 providing for the passage of the legal age to 64 was not put to the vote, the LFI deputies see it as a triumph. In two weeks, the deputies of the opposition have often waved the regulations of the Assembly. Thomas Porte (LFI) was banned for a fortnight for a photo on Twitter where he poses with his foot on a football bearing the image of Olivier Dussopt. The minister was also referred to as“assassin” by an insubordinate.

Laurent Berger denounces a “disheartening spectacle”

On the merits, the government has been put in difficulty, in particular on the question of 1200 euros, the minimum amount promised for retirement pensions. The LR right, generally favorable to the text, was torn on the subject. Aurélien Pradié, who is opposed to it, was dismissed from his post as number 2. The National Rally tabled a motion of censure, immediately rejected by the other parties. A climate of general confusion denounced by Laurent Berger, national secretary of the CFDT, who mocks “a sorry spectacle, in defiance of the workers”. While the text will arrive in the Senate in the coming weeks, the pressure could increase in the street from March 7 with the promise of a France at a standstill.