Two motions of no confidence in the minority government of Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne were tabled on 17 March 2023 in the French National Assembly.
The fact this pension reform was introduced through a draft law concerning financing of Social Security proves a manifest and unprecedented misuse of parliamentary procedure and of Article 47-1 of our Constitution.
The Government has therefore chosen to bypass our institutions in order to adopt an unjust reform that did not enjoy the support of the population while the opinion of Parliament was not taken into account.
The application of Article 47-1 of the Constitution has imposed a tight 50 days deadline on the time allotted for debate on this measure, making it impossible to have a calm and in-depth discussion on this subject.
No sincere lover of democracy attached to the Republic can accept the imposition of such hasty conditions on the examination on a bill that will have a strong impact on the lives of millions of our countrymen for decades.
While the French are massively demonstrating their opposition to this reform, the people's representatives were not, at any time, able to vote on this text, which is, despite the legality of the process, a serious attack on democratic principles.