The National Assembly continued its examination of the “expenditure” portion of the Social Security budget on the afternoon of Tuesday, November 5, with no guarantee of being able to complete this legislative project before the midnight deadline set by the Constitution.
When the debates resumed in the afternoon, several elected officials from the left or from the National Rally (RN) requested, without success, that the order of examination of the modifications to the Social Security financing bill (PLFSS) be modified. . This is so that the Assembly at least has time to examine, before the fateful hour, a controversial point in the text: the six-month postponement of the revaluation of retirement pensions, desired by the Government.
“We must study as a priority” This article, “which is basically a real scandal and a social injustice”argued Christophe Bentz (RN). For the Socialist Party, Jérôme Guedj also proposed that each group withdraw its amendments so that the text can be examined to the end.
But the president of the Social Affairs committee, Frédéric Valletoux (Horizons), refused to modify the work program: “All elements are important”observed, and not only that of the increase in pensions. “Let’s leave [se] develop the discussion and try to examine the entire PLFSS »he added.
Shortly after 7:00 p.m. there were still around 200 amendments to be considered before moving on to the controversial provision on pensions, and almost 450 amendments in total until the end of the text.
Adoption of “recipes” in a revised version
On Monday, to everyone’s surprise, the National Assembly adopted the “income” part of the text, in a version largely reworked by the left. Elected officials on the right and center voted against it. If the “expenses” part, and therefore the entire PLFSS, is not approved within the scheduled time, the text will go to the Senate, in the initial version of the Government, enriched with the “amendments voted by the National Assembly and accepted by it”as specified in the Social Security code.
By the beginning of the afternoon, deputies had adopted a list of provisions relating to health policy, often proposed by the government. They thus validated a reform of the calendar of preventive oral and dental examinations, which will now be annual for all children from 3 years of age, and a generalization of the vaccination of secondary school students against meningitis, in conjunction with the vaccine against the virus. papilloma (HPV). ).
The Assembly also approved the reimbursement of consultations with certain approved psychologists, without prior medical prescription, and of tests that detect chemical submission.
