Pensions: Socialist MPs to submit a motion of censure to overthrow François Bayrou
Following the failure of negotiations between unions and employers, the Socialists' response. Socialist Party deputies will submit a motion of censure against François Bayrou's government, Socialist group leader Boris Vallaud announced on Tuesday.
"You have made commitments on this subject that have not been kept," lamented the president of the PS elected representatives in the Assembly, citing the Prime Minister's refusal to commit to presenting to Parliament a text that would allow for debate on the retirement age of 64 .
"This forces us, Mr. Prime Minister, to file a motion of censure against your government," MP Boris Vallaud explained.
The other left- wing groups, the ecologists and the communists, also reiterated on Tuesday their intention to submit or vote on a motion of censure, calling for a joint motion to be submitted by the groups that formed the New Popular Front.
"My conviction is that there is a path, albeit a very difficult one, that can lead us out of this impasse," the Prime Minister replied.
It "should result in a text (...) which can be examined by the national representation," insisted the head of government, who is meeting the unions and employers separately this Tuesday to try to find a way forward.
"Whatever legislative or regulatory path we take, it is unacceptable to me to allow the financial balance to be destroyed," the Prime Minister insisted.
However, the socialists, and their allies on the left, are demanding to be able to debate all issues in Parliament, including the sensitive legal retirement age, raised to 64 by the latest reform in 2023.
They rely on a letter from the Prime Minister to Socialist parliamentarians in January 2025, when he was seeking a political agreement to pass the State and Social Security budgets . He called for a discussion between social partners "without totem or taboo, not even the legal age of entitlement." However, he set as a condition "a political agreement and (a) maintained overall financial balance."
In any case, no left-wing motion of censure will be able to succeed without the votes of the National Rally, which has so far not included the question of the pension conclave in its threats of censure .
"We'll see if the National Rally decides to save the Macron system once again," LFI leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon declared on X.
"I had understood until now that this was a red line for the National Rally. We can see its desire to become commonplace and to make itself known to employers," declared Socialist Party leader Olivier Faure to the National Assembly.
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