The deputies examine Thursday the Liot bill on pensions. A text whose amendments on the repeal of 64 years were declared inadmissible by the President of the Assembly.
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“When Charles de Courson becomes a symbol of rebellion, there is something going on in the country”quipped François Ruffin, deputy La France insoumise, Thursday June 8 on France Inter, while the deputies examine Thursday the proposed repeal law, aimed at repealing the flagship measure on the legal age of departure at 64, carried by the rapporteur of the Liot group.
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The President of the National Assembly, however, declared inadmissible on Wednesday the amendments restoring the retirement age to 62 by using Article 40 of the Constitution, which prohibits any parliamentary proposal creating a burden on public finances. “An Admission of Weakness”said François Ruffin.
“Today we have a colossus with feet of clay, a paper tiger”pinged the elected official of the Somme. “When democracy, which normally means power of the people by the people, for the people, becomes power without the people and against the people, it doesn’t last long”, he developed. For the Unsubmissive, “we must seek to repair these fractures and not divide even more”. “I am sad for my country today, because where a President of the Republic must be the guarantor of the unity of the nation, we have on the contrary a bearer of division”he estimated.