Zucman tax, pensions… Key day for deputies

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Crucial day in the National Assembly, Friday November 31, the Social Security financing bill and the vote to suspend the pension reform. MEPs approve its suspension in committee. “We have just adopted article 45 list which is the article of the amending letter which therefore materializes the suspension of the pension reform and therefore blocks the retirement age at 62 years and 9 months, and freezes the quarters at 170 quarters” indicates Sandrine Brunel, PS deputy.

Another burning issue, the budget discussed in plenary session during a final day of debate. The Zuckman tax, as well as its lighter version, were rejected by MPs. Bitterness and indignation in the ranks of the left, the rebels are calling for censorship of the government. “To be able to ensure that the richest pay their due and their fair share of tax in this country, we must therefore remove this Macronist government which, you see, no longer has anyone to support it” declared Mathilde Panot, president of the La France Insoumise group.

The socialists deplore a lack of compromise, but for the Prime Minister, it is indeed parliamentary democracy which is at work and the Assembly has decided. “We cannot say on the one hand, when there is a 49.3, that it is a democratic coup. And when the National Assembly expressed itself sovereignly, to say that there is a democratic coup because we did not get what we wanted“said Sébastien Lecornu to the deputies. A little earlier in the day, the atmosphere was already erupting. Still fighting over tax justice and the taxation of holding companies. The entire left considers the text emptied of its substance. The National Rally, the Central Bloc and the Republicans welcome this victory. Laurent Wauquiez is even delighted to have prevented Zuckman’s taxmania, which, according to the boss of the deputies, the Republicans, would have killed employment in France.