Overview

• The suspension was announced during Sébastien Lecornu’s general policy declaration to the National Assembly this afternoon.
• François‑Xavier Bellamy of Les Républicains reacted by writing that, were he an MP, he would vote to censure the government.
• Hours earlier, Bellamy had warned that LR would refuse to support any government that paused the reform while saying the party would not pursue censure.
• The Socialist Party had demanded a suspension as the price for not moving forward with a no‑confidence effort.
• Bellamy defended the reform as imperfect but necessary, arguing the pension system is in deficit and pointing to Portugal’s surplus and Greece’s roughly 1% deficit as fiscal contrasts.