Furious opposition against the nightly examination of the “full employment” text in the Assembly

“We cannot start the session like that, it is a very bad signal”, underlined the communist deputy Pierre Dharréville, while the examination of this text from Monday in the hemicycle must mark the occasion. sending off a new parliamentary season which promises to be eventful.

By leaving the Social Affairs Committee, deputies from the left-wing coalition Nupes, LR (right) and the Liot group (Libertés, independents, overseas and territories) wanted to protest against conditions deemed "unworthy".

“The conditions were unacceptable”, justified the Insoumis deputy Hadrien Clouet, this “is not a healthy framework for debating”, added his PS colleague Arthur Delaporte, while they still had to address measures concerning early childhood and the integration of disabled people.

For ecologist Marie-Charlotte Garin, there are “subjects that we should not deal with half-awake”.

After the departure of the dissatisfied deputies, the commission adopted the text after 02:00 a.m., already voted on in July at first reading in the Senate.

Supported by the Minister of Labor Olivier Dussopt, it sets the objective of reducing the unemployment rate to 5% by 2027, by focusing on better coordination of employment stakeholders and more restrictive support for job seekers. job, considered “stigmatizing” by the left.

“They adopted their little law between them, their little mess in their little kitchen,” LR deputy Philippe Juvin told AFP. The presidential camp had obtained by a narrowly won vote the extension of the debates beyond midnight, arguing that continuing the next day would not have made it possible to respect the necessary deadlines before the examination in the hemicycle.

LR is in favor of the new constraints for recipients, but has reservations about other parts of the text, in particular concerning the reception of young children. The minister in charge of the file, Aurore Bergé, "came to be interviewed at 1:30 in the morning", lamented Mr. Juvin, judging that "the majority really has a problem with Parliament".

The RN deputy Jocelyn Designy, also hostile to the nighttime extension, had however not left the commission. “There is an opposition which respects the rules, even when it does not agree,” he argued, castigating the “theater” of other opponents.