Opposition in France presents motion of censure against government for controversial pension reform

The opposition in France presented this Friday two motions of censure against the government, in response to the controversial adoption by decree of the pension reform of the liberal president Emmanuel Macron.

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The group of independent deputies LIOT and the far-right of Marine Le Pen announced the presentation of separate motions of censure, which have a difficult time prospering due to political balances.

“The vote on this motion will allow us to get out of a deep political crisis,” said the chairman of the LIOT parliamentary group, Bertrand Pancher, announcing his initiative.

Macron decided on Thursday to approve his pension reform without submitting it to the deputies, fearing he would lose the vote in the National Assembly (lower house) where he lacks an absolute majority.

This legal mechanism, registered in article 49.3 of the Constitution, allows this adoption by force, which could only be reversed if the deputies approve a motion of censure.

The debate in the lower house is expected at the beginning of next week.

If either were adopted, the government led by Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne would fall, but not Macron, who went so far as to threaten to dissolve the Assembly elected in June in the event of a setback to his reform.

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The motion presented by LIOT and signed by deputies from the left-wing Nupes front could gather more support than that of the far-right, politically isolated. Le Pen’s party will vote for both.

But they would still lack some thirty votes to reach the 287 deputies necessary for the motion of no confidence to go ahead, something complicated given the position of the group Los Republicanos (right).

The head of this opposition party, Éric Ciotti, announced that they will not vote on a motion of no confidence against a government with which they negotiated the reform. However, the party is divided.

The deputies in favor of the motion of censure thus seek to put pressure on the “twenty” LR members who refused to approve the reform, pushing the government to adopt it with 49.3.

According to polls, two out of three French people oppose the delay of the retirement age from 62 to 64 by 2030 and the advancement to 2027 of the requirement to contribute 43 years (and not 42 as now) to receive a full pension.

Source: Elcomercio

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