The Head of State has tense within his own camp on the method and the calendar of a reform, which is unanimously accepted in his ranks.
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“I believe in the virtue of the war of movement.” In the village hall of the Elysée, Thursday, September 15, before the head of the government, Elisabeth Borne, twenty ministers seated in the front row and all Prefects gathered, the President of the Republic used this metaphor to express his desire to see his promises made more quickly. He has illustrated it, in recent days, going up to the front to hasten his pensions reform, orchestrating the gestation of the project, even if it means confusing and dividing within his own camp.
Emmanuel Macron does not exclude inserting an amendment into the Social Security financing bill (PLFSS), which must be presented in the Council of Ministers on September 26, to ensure a setting Work in the summer of 2023. Neither the voting modality, nor the content of the reform – postponement of the legal age of departure or lengthening the duration of contribution – are officially acted.
For three days, political meetings follow one another on both sides of the Seine. The President of the Republic approached the subject with Elisabeth Borne during a lunch at the Elysée on Thursday, after meeting for more than two hours deputies of the majority of the finance committee. In front of them, Emmanuel Macron argued that there was no ideal moment to legislate and that the political and social situation would be no less simple in a few months.
Meanwhile, in Matignon, Elisabeth Borne said before her ministers that a pension reform would be necessary to finance the social model. As for the modalities, it maintained, depending on the word of a minister, a neutrality of “poker face”.
The majority of pulled knives
The day before, during a breakfast with the bosses of the three majority parties, the Prime Minister had listened to the reserves of Stanislas Guerini, general delegate of the presidential party, the restraint of Edouard Philippe, leader of the party Horizons, and the protests of François Bayrou, president of the modem. The latter opposes what he considers as an archaic method: “We must make the reform in 2023, convince and train the French, avoiding going into force.” “What is the CNR for the CNR [National Council of the Refoundation]? Movers the secretary general of this body inaugurated on September 8 by Emmanuel Macron. To find a path to reflect on the fundamental problems on the future of the country and escape the systematic conflict. “
In the presidential camp, the atmosphere is with pulled knives. As of Tuesday, the president (Renaissance) of the National Assembly, Yaël Braun-Pivet, and the leader of the Horizons deputies, Laurent Marcangeli, expressed their reluctance in the meeting of the leaders of the Macronist coalition. For some, the method of a reform through the PLFSS is deemed “of an unnamed brutality”; For the others, the moment is inappropriate and can “wait until three months”.
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