tensions within the National Assembly earlier than the shut of the debates | EUROtoday

The National Assembly continued the examination of the “expenditure” a part of the Social Security finances on Tuesday night, November 5, with out assure of with the ability to full this legislative undertaking earlier than the deadline set by the Constitution at midnight.

When the debates resumed within the afternoon, a number of elected officers from the left or from the National Rally (RN) requested, with out success, that the order of examination of the amendments to the Social Security financing invoice ( PLFSS) be modified. This is in order that the Assembly has at the least time to look at, earlier than the fateful hour, a controversial level within the textual content: the six-month postponement of the revaluation of retirement pensions, desired by the federal government.

“We must study as a priority” This merchandise, “which is basically a real scandal and a social injustice”argued Christophe Bentz (RN). For the Socialist Party, Jérôme Guedj additionally proposed that every group withdraw amendments, to provide the textual content an opportunity to be examined by to the top.

But the president of the social affairs committee, Frédéric Valletoux (Horizons), refused to make any modifications to the work program: “All items are important”he noticed, and never simply the one on the rise in pensions. “We’re going to let [se] unfold the discussion and try to examine the whole PLFSS »he added.

A little after 7 p.m., there were still nearly 200 amendments to consider before coming to the controversial provision on pensions – and nearly 450 amendments in total until the end of the text.

Adoption of “recipes” in a revised version

On Monday, to everyone’s surprise, the National Assembly adopted the “income” part of the text, in a version largely reworked by the left. Elected officials from the right and the center voted against. If the “expenditure” part, and therefore the entire PLFSS, is not adopted within the allotted time, the text will go to the Senate, in the government’s initial version, enriched with the “amendments voted by the National Assembly and accepted by it”as specified in the Social Security code.

At the start of the evening, the deputies had adopted a list of provisions relating to health policy, often proposed by the government. They thus validated a reform of the calendar of preventive oral and dental examinations, which will now be annual for all children from 3 years old, and a generalization of the vaccination of middle school students against meningitis, in conjunction with that against the papillomavirus (HPV ).

The Assembly also approved the reimbursement of consultations with certain approved psychologists, without prior medical prescription, and of tests allowing the detection of chemical submission.