Pensions: Mélenchon won by one vote
It only took one voice, one small voice, to bog down the examination of the pension reform in the National Assembly. This Thursday, February 16, under pressure from their Nupes partners, who had all chosen to withdraw their amendments, the rebellious deputies decided to put their strategic dispute to the vote.
A few hours before the end of the debates at the Palais-Bourbon, two lines then clashed among the 75 LFI deputies. On the one hand, the line of Jean-Luc Mélenchon: prevent at all costs the vote of article 7 postponing the legal age of retirement to 64 years. This vote would have been claimed as a victory by the government and would have had a demobilizing effect on the social movement, believes the former presidential candidate. On the other hand, the line of rebellious rebels, François Ruffin, Clémentine Autain and Alexis Corbière in the lead. Aligned with the watchwords of the intersyndicale, they pushed for a gradual withdrawal of the amendments in order to start debating the postponement of the legal age. Result of the vote by show of hands: the faithful of Jean-Luc Mélenchon won by one vote, 26 against 25.
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A few moments later, the septuagenarian curries his communist partner and his “incomprehensible withdrawal of amendments”. The next day, a few minutes from the end of the debates, this time he will attack the socialist and environmentalist allies,
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