Insubordinate France files a motion of censure – RT in French

While the President of the National Assembly declared the inadmissibility of the amendments aimed at the repeal of the retirement age at 64, La France insoumise announces that it will table a new motion of censure.

An “unacceptable” situation: Mathilde Panot, deputy of La France insoumise in Val-de-Marne, did not taste the inadmissibility of the amendments relating to the abolition of the postponement of the legal retirement age. In the wake of the announcements made by the President of the National Assembly, the elected representative of Nupes announced this June 7 at noon the filing of a new motion of censure.

“An unprecedented attack on the rights of Parliament»

Invited on the set of BFMTV / RMC this June 7, Yaël Braun-Pivet argued article 40 of the Constitution to justify the financial inadmissibility of the amendments aimed at repealing the legal retirement age at 64 years old. An announcement that aroused the anger of the opposition, in particular the Liot group (Freedoms, independents, overseas and territories), at the origin of the amendments relating to the repeal of the retirement age. Texts which were to be voted on June 8 during the parliamentary niche of this group.

The Liot deputies denounced “an unprecedented attack on the rights of Parliament” and “a denial of democracy”. In addition, they are determined to “allow a vote in the Assembly on pension reform”.

A feeling shared by Nupes, which had also tabled amendments to this effect. The Chairman of the Assembly’s Finance Committee, Éric Coquerel (LFI), for his part, deplores a “weakening of parliamentary democracy”. On the right, too, the criticisms fuse: the vice-president of the National Assembly Sébastien Chenu (RN) thus denounces a majority which “is afraid of the deputies, afraid of the French and tramples the rights of Parliament”.

Towards a Black Thursday at the Assembly?

It was on Thursday June 8 that the vote suggested by the Liot group and awaited by all the oppositions was to be held. With the inadmissibility of the amendments to repeal the retirement age at 64, opposition parliamentarians will be deprived of their vote and should give a cold welcome to the president of the hemicycle. By declaring the day before on BFMTV / RMC: “Tomorrow, whatever happens, there will be no repeal of the pension reform”, the president opened hostilities. And to add: “I’m fed up with these arsonist firefighters who tell us morning, noon and night that we are in denial of democracy while they do everything to avoid the vote.” Yaël Braun-Pivet therefore declared the amendments inadmissible on June 7 at the start of the afternoon, without consulting the chairman of the finance committee.

The motion of censure of La France insoumise will be the fifth in a year for the government. The last voted in March saw the executive save by nine votes.