Pensions: Left in referendum motion trap

“low maneuver”, “dirty work”, “Democratic robbery”. Sebastian Jumel, Sena-Marine deputy, will not take off. On Tuesday, January 31, he and his colleagues from the New People’s, Environmental and Social Union (Nupes) learned that there was a referendum motion presented by the National Rally (RN) against the pension reform. retained in the National Assembly in the Conference of Presidents and not by the left. And this while on January 24, the Nupes, at the initiative of the Communists, were the first to register – twenty-four hours before the RN – a text signed by 98 MPs, demanding a preliminary referendum. Consideration of the draft law on February 6.

To arbitrate between the extreme right and the left, the president of the National Assembly, Yael Braun-Pivet, proposed a draw based on the model of preliminary rejection motions. This method of deciding the vote was supported by the presidential coalition, the National Rally and the centrist group Liot against Nupe’s opinion. The LR group abstained. In the company of the president, we claim that we have found ourselves in A “The law is void”The Assembly’s Rules of Procedure do not specify how to decide several motions submitted by different groups. “The lottery solution was the least of the least bad decisions legally”, Jean-Paul Mattei, president of the MoDem group, justifies.

For the four left-wing parties, on the contrary, Yaël Braun-Pivet should not have “RN Group Later Deposit Acceptance”, They wrote to him on Tuesday objecting to the process “totally unique” and “scandalous”. Even in the case of a draw, there should have been a result “Weighted by number of signatories”, And this in favor of Nupe. On Tuesday evening, Yael Brown-Pivett denied their request, claiming that“In the absence of specific governing statutes and precedents, the Conference of Presidents was the only body capable of establishing applicable rules.”.

“Shame! »

On the left, Emmanuel Macron’s relative majority has been accused of trying to distract and divide at a time when France has taken to the streets against pension reform. “Electing your comfort opposition that will not fight in the assembly or on the streets on a day of huge popular mobilization: Shame! », LFI Group President Matilda Pannot started. “Macronists are playing with fire, the devil”Condemns Sebastien Jumel.