Pensions: ‘People must intervene’, oppositions react after no-confidence vote rejected

Calls for the resignation of the government and continued street fighting against pension reform converged this Monday after a close vote on a cross-party motion of no confidence in the Assembly defeated by nine small votes.

While hundreds of people gathered in front of the National Assembly on Monday evening to demand the rejection of the reform, La France insoumise leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon called for “a move towards popular censorship”. “I wish that this popular censorship be expressed en masse, in all places and under all circumstances, and that it will allow us to achieve the withdrawal of the text,” the rebel leader said in a press center near Bourbon. Castle.

“Nine voices of dissent are not enough to change our minds,” he added. “People need to be involved and that’s what they’re going to do,” he concluded.

“The government is already dead in the eyes of the French,” said rebel MP Mathilde Pano. “There is only one solution to the chaos: either Emmanuel Macron will abandon his reform, or he will appeal to the people through a referendum or a dissolution,” she added, announcing that the Nups would take over the Constitutional Council to try to invalidate the reform.

Marine Le Pen, for her part, believed that Elizabeth Bourne should “go away” or that Emmanuel Macron should “fire her”. A very tough vote of no confidence is for her “a clear sanction of the essence and form of government.” “There is what the result of the vote says mathematically, (but) there is what it says politically: I think that the President of the Republic should listen to what this ballot says politically,” added the MP for Pas de Calais. . His political group in the Assembly also made its own proposal, which was also not accepted. The RN leader also stated that her group would also take over the Constitutional Council.

LR MP Aurelien Pradier, who voted for a vote of no confidence along with 18 other right-wing MPs, on Monday called on Emmanuel Macron to withdraw this “poisonous law”, assuring that the government of Elisabeth Born has a “legitimacy problem”. “Today it is obvious that the government has a problem with legitimacy, that the President of the Republic cannot remain a spectator of this situation,” the deputy said on BFMTV, who did not follow the instructions of his party bosses, who called for not supporting the vote of no confidence.

“The first act of courage of the president of the republic is to withdraw this text, to bring everyone back to the table so that we rework the new pension reform,” he said, assuring that “this pension law is poisoned.” “This text has become a brake on our democratic life,” he said. “Without the removal of this text, we will not be able to rebuild anything in the social, political, democratic dialogue.”

With the Assembly passing the reform, the opposition still has solutions to try to force the government to withdraw its controversial project. The Constitutional Council, taken over by Nupes and RN, may have considered the circumstances under which the law was passed unconstitutional. The Left has also announced its intention to vote in the Assembly to organize a Common Initiative Referendum (RIP) on pensions. But according to Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the two procedures can take several months.