Live this Saturday on BFMTV, Patrick Kanner, boss of the PS group in the Senate, undertook to debate article 7 within the upper assembly, unlike the deputies who did not succeed in the allotted time.
The boss of socialist senators Patrick Kanner promised on Saturday that the postponement of the legal retirement age from 62 to 64 would be debated and put to the vote in the Senate in March, contrary to what happened in the Assembly.
“I make a commitment that article 7”, relating to age measurement, “will be examined. We believe that this is what we owe to the French people who, as trade union unity asks us, are waiting that this debate takes place”, assured on BFMTV the senator from the North.
The text debated in the Senate from March 2
The National Assembly, where the duration of the debates was limited to 9 days, ended Friday evening the examination in first reading of the pension reform without reaching this article. The passage of the text at the Palais Bourbon took place in a stormy, sometimes chaotic climate, and got bogged down while thousands of amendments were tabled, in particular by the left-wing opposition. The reform will now arrive in the Senate in committee on February 28, then in the hemicycle from March 2.
“The upper assembly works differently, fortunately for our democracy, for the image of Parliament”, argued Patrick Kanner, considering that a “subject as serious as the postponement of the legal retirement age to 64 years” deserves “debate”. “You will not be disappointed in the Senate”, continued the socialist senator who intends, with his group, to oppose “an unpopular, unjust, useless text”.
“Not because we will have the same invectives, the same verbal or even physical violence. But we will work with absolute rigor, with determination, with force” (…) and “in a climate that will have nothing to do with “, he insisted.
