the try to repeal the BIA compromised by a barrage of amendments | EUROtoday

Eight texts are on this system for the parliamentary initiative day of La France insoumise (LFI) on the National Assembly, scheduled for Thursday November 28. But the deputies have little or no probability of going past the primary textual content of this “niche”. And for good cause: that is the long-awaited invoice to repeal the pension reform. This is the primary time that such a invoice has arrived in session with out having been emptied of its substance in committee, regardless of a number of makes an attempt because the adoption of the reform in April 2023. The deputies might theoretically reach repealing it at first studying because the left and the National Rally have introduced that they’ll vote for the textual content. Theoretically, as a result of almost a thousand amendments have already been tabled.

The “niches”, nowadays the place a parliamentary group has management of the agenda, perform like “Cinderella days”: they begin at 9 a.m. and, no matter occurs, at midnight, the whole lot stops. It does not matter that we’re in the midst of analyzing a textual content, the place 5 minutes earlier than the vote, the spell is damaged. Can a vote happen earlier than midnight on Thursday? This is the entire query as a result of the promoters of the 2023 reform, the presidential coalition and The Republicans (LR), don’t plan to take a seat idly by. “We are going to table a certain number of amendments… They want to keep the debate alive, we are going to keep the debate alive”, assures the LR deputy for Manche Philippe Gosselin. In quick: dilute the debates and impede in an effort to keep away from a vote earlier than midnight.

Ironically, on the time of the examination of the pension reform, in February 2023, it was the left, and in the end solely LFI, which practiced obstruction. Already, on the time, to keep away from in any respect prices a vote and the legitimization by the National Assembly of a really unpopular reform. This can be how LFI justified its obstruction on the time: “There is a difference between obstructing to respect popular sovereignty and, on the contrary, to prevent the expression of popular sovereignty,” defined, Tuesday morning, the president of the LFI group to the Assembly, Mathilde Panot. The technique however sparked controversy, with the previous majority not having harsh sufficient phrases to denounce this angle. Even if parliamentary obstruction is nothing new and has been practiced, over time, by nearly all camps within the opposition.

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