In a statement sent to AFP by the Élysée, President Emmanuel Macron indicated that he wanted the pension reform to go “to the end of its democratic journey”. While reaffirming its support for all parliamentarians.
President Emmanuel Macron expressed the wish on Sunday that the pension reform, which will be definitively adopted on Monday if the two motions of censure targeting the government of Elisabeth Borne are rejected, “can go to the end of its democratic journey”. “After months of political and social consultations and more than 170 hours of debate which resulted in the vote of a compromise text between the Senate and the National Assembly, the President of the Republic expressed to the two Presidents (of the Senate and of the Assembly, editor’s note) its wish that the text on pensions can go to the end of its democratic journey with respect for all”, indicated the Elysée in a message sent to AFP.
“Following attempts at intimidation and threats against elected officials and representatives of the State, as well as damage to offices and public buildings, the President of the Republic called Gérard Larcher, President of the Senate, and Yaël Braun-Pivet, President of the National Assembly, to reaffirm her support for Parliament and all of its parliamentarians, as well as the mobilization of the government so that everything is done to protect them”, adds the Elysée.
Motions of censure debated Monday in the Assembly
Elisabeth Borne on Thursday engaged the constitutional weapon of 49.3 to have the reform adopted without a vote, after the decision to trigger it taken with Emmanuel Macron. Two motions of censure, one transpartisan from the Liot group and the other from the RN, will be debated Monday in the National Assembly and put to the vote. The absolute majority bar to bring down the government seems difficult to achieve. The rejection of the motions will be worth definitive adoption of the reform by the Parliament. Appeals to the Constitutional Council have already been announced by the left.
Since Thursday, organized or spontaneous rallies have been taking place throughout the territory, calmly or with excesses, against the reform which provides for the decline in the starting age from 62 to 64 years. In Lyon on Friday evening, demonstrators burst into a district town hall and lit a fire, which was quickly extinguished. The pressures on the Macronist deputies or LR have multiplied, with many parliamentary offices targeted with tags and vengeful inscriptions, and that of Eric Ciotti in Nice stoned in the night from Saturday to Sunday, with the inscription “La motion or the pavement”.
Source: Europe1
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