For Yaël Braun-Pivet, there is no other way out than to reject the proposal to repeal the pension reform. The president of the National Assembly on Thursday ruled the bill carried by the independent parliamentary group Liot "obviously" inadmissible. She then expects the LFI president of the finance commission Eric Coquerel to reject her. The unions support Liot's proposal, which is due to be considered on June 8, two days after a 14th day of strikes and protests against pension reform.

"It is up to the chairman of the finance committee which is seized of this question of article 40 to pronounce the inadmissibility" since "obviously the text of the law constitutes a burden for our public finances and therefore contravenes this article," said on Sud Radio the president of the Assembly. "This is his mission and I hope that, like me, he will fully fulfill it," she added, before insisting: "I cannot conceive that he takes any other decision than inadmissibility."

Eric Coquerel's misunderstanding

"I will respect at each stage the prerogatives of each other and indeed, in the hemicycle, it is I who is accountable for the application of Article 40," she also warned, in case Eric Coquerel did not pronounce the inadmissibility. "My role is to uphold the law and institutions," she said. Article 40 of the Constitution provides that proposals and amendments by parliamentarians shall not be admissible if they result in a decrease in revenue or an increase in public charges.

"It will still be necessary to explain to me this logic which wants the Bureau of the Assembly chaired by Yaël Braun-Pivet to validate this bill including under Article 40 (art 89-1 of the Rules of Procedure) but then considers as certain that it would be up to me to invalidate it," responded immediately on Twitter Eric Coquerel. Asked in real time about this answer, Yaël Braun-Pivet assured that she would "obviously" exchange with him but that "the relations of a president of the National Assembly with the president of the finance committee are not settled on your radio. "

  • Pension reform 2023
  • Politics
  • Yaël Braun-Pivet
  • National Assembly