The deputies of the Nupes (New Popular Ecological and Social Union) on the one hand, those of the RN (National Rally) on the other, filed Tuesday, with the Constitutional Council, appeals against the controversial pension reform adopted on overseen by Parliament.
Following the rejection of two motions of censure by the General Assembly and the adoption of the pension reform by Parliament, the battle continues before the wise men of the Constitutional Council.
For the 150 deputies on the left, the Executive has, without “urgent” necessity, used and “diverted” article 47-1 of the Constitution on the examination of the budgets of the Social Security, rapporteur for the media of France.
This had the effect of depriving the assemblies of the impact study of the bill and drastically reducing parliamentary debates, advancing the elected PS (Socialist Party), LFI (La France insoumise), PCF ( French Communist Party) and EELV (Europe Ecology The Greens), must have joined a handful of independents from the group Libertés, Indépendants, Outre-mer et Territoires (Liot).
According to them, the reform carried out by the government did not “fall within the scope of an amending financing law” of Social Security. They also consider that the reform, which provides for the postponement of the retirement age from 62 to 64, “undermines” the “Social Republic” mentioned in Article 1 of the Constitution. Left-wing senators must, for their part,
In the morning, the RN had filed its own appeal to the Constitutional Council. Party spokespersons have spelled out an “unjust, brutal reform that will put French penal pensioners at risk”.
The Constitutional Council was also seized directly by the head of government, Elisabeth Borne.