Macron's pension reform passes to the Senate without being debated in the French National Assembly

MADRID, 18 Feb. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The French National Assembly has not managed to reach a global vote this Friday regarding the pension reform promoted by the Government of Emmanuel Macron, so the text automatically goes to the Senate, all this while the unions call new strikes in against raising the retirement age to 64.

After almost fifteen days of debate, the deputies of the National Assembly had until midnight this Friday to rule on the controversial pension reform, however, the first reading of the text has concluded without them being able to debate much of the content due to the numerous amendments presented by the France Insoumisa (LFI) formation.

Thus, among the articles that have not been able to be discussed by the National Assembly is article 7, which establishes the increase in the minimum retirement age from 62 to 64 years and which has so far caused five demonstrations throughout the French territory.

From the group of the Government they consider that the large number of amendments has been the reason that an agreement has not been reached: "There is a history of indignation, obstruction and invective. And from this point of view, the debate has not grown", has admitted the deputy of the Renaissance group Mathieu Lefèvre according to RFI.

For its part, from the leftist group of LFI they blame the Executive: "The responsibility for this lack of time lies with the Government. It chose, through article 47-1, to limit the time of the debate to 12 days", it has announced the deputy Paul Vannier in statements collected by the same chain.

This Friday was the last day of voting on the text, whose discussion stalled this Thursday after almost two weeks of debate and automatically goes to the Senate where it will be examined at the beginning of March.

On the other hand, the French Democratic Confederation of Labor has reported that a major strike and demonstration against the promoted pension reform is scheduled to take place on March 7, after five demonstrations in less than a month.