Behind the scenes of the amendment factory

“Welcome in the “war room”. Smile screwed to the lips, Boris Vallaud greets his visitors in his modest office on the second floor of the Palais Bourbon. The decoration is Spartan: a red carpet lines the floor while a large photo of Henri Emmanuelli – former socialist president of the National Assembly and deputy of the Landes, who died in 2017 – decorates one of the white walls of the room, rear base of the rose party in which the tough battle of pension reform is preparing.

Surrounded by several parliamentary advisers and the PS deputy Arthur Delaporte, the boss of the socialist group unfolds the strategy of his troops for the legislative battle that is looming. “We will manage our amendments like a piano. We will have to adapt the tempo according to the debates: we speed up, then we slow down, and so on.illustrates Boris Vallaud.

We are on the eve of the official end date for the tabling of amendments for the pension reform. For project review…