The Head of State favors a bill in its own right, which he hopes to have voted by January 2023, rather than a PLFSS amendment in October. An outstretched hand towards the social partners and his crumpled ally, François Bayrou.
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A dinner to put all the options on the table. And decide. At the Elysée, around a seafood plateau composed of oysters, bulots and shrimps, the twenty -one guests were counted on Wednesday, September 28. In search of a crossing route to reform pensions, Emmanuel Macron brought together the leaders of his majority – weight ministers, group leaders in the National Assembly and in the Senate, presidents of parties, whose list did not not been communicated – to take the pulse on his own camp.
Will the working hours be extended by an amendment in the Social Security financing bill (PLFSS) from October? Or in January 2023 in a plfss correction, to give yourself time for consultation but also, as for any financial text, the possibility of activating 49.3?
It is ultimately the classic method, of less brutal appearance, which was retained: presenting the pension reform in a bill dedicated and voted during the winter, at the end of 2022 or at the very beginning of 2023. Leaving An interstice for consultation, while confirming the objective of retreating the starting age at 65.
This median route was not obvious. United behind the head of state, seven guests first pleaded to “go quickly” by an amendment to the PLFSS. François Patriat, leader of the macronist group in the Senate, is one of them. “You have to beat the iron as long as it is hot, always retreat, it is loser-percent,” explained shortly before the Elected the elected representative of the Côte-d’Or, which fears criticisms in immobility.
His counterpart in the National Assembly, Aurore Bergé, assured the cohesion of the Renaissance group behind this idea. “There is no hidden agenda, the subject was widely debated during the electoral campaign,” she said the day before. Convinced that a reform difficult to swallow today will appear even more painful tomorrow, the ministers Bruno Le Maire (economy), Gabriel Attal (budget), Gérald Darmanin (interior), Olivier Véran (spokesperson) pleaded to accelerate. As well as Stéphane Séjénéné, the new leader of the presidential party.
François Bayrou isolated, Edouard Philippe behind
Prudent, Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne tried to brake against defenders of the fast way. In Matignon, its services have shown legislative creativity in recent days to imagine a third way, that of a reform inscribed in a “PLFSS bis”, a connective social budget. Olivier Dussopt (work), Franck Riester (relations with Parliament) and Richard Ferrand (ex-president of the National Assembly) chose this exit gate, which has the merit of not making the face of the dissatisfied ally lose face of the modem, placed just opposite the head of state, and next to Aurore Bergé, a fervent supporter of the express reform.
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