While defending the right to strike and to demonstrate, the Head of State wished that there are “the least possible nuisances for all our compatriots”.
Mo12345lemonde with AFP
Emmanuel Macron “wished”, Sunday, January 22, that the government and the Parliament could “develop” its contested reform of pensions, while deeming necessary “to move forward”, on the eve of its presentation in the Council of Ministers .
After a “social time” of consultation with the unions, “there is now a political time which opens up to the assembly and it must be respected. And, therefore, I hope that the government with parliamentarians at parliamentarians The National Assembly then in the Senate can work the text and arrange it, “said the head of state, during a press conference with the German Chancellor, Olaf Scholz, received in Paris.
“There has already been an opening”
Prayed to say if he intended to maintain at all costs the postponement of the legal age of departure from 62 to 64 years, despite a strong social mobilization against his project, he refused to respond. “I will not replace me with the government, which will propose” a “project at 64 years on Monday on the Council of Ministers”, or the parliamentary debate “which follows”, explained the president. “But we know roughly, and even exactly, the needs that are ours. They are known,” he insisted.
believing that it has obtained by the ballot boxes a “mandate” to repel the legal starting age “at 65 years by 2031”, he recalled that the project had been “fitted out” at the end of the consultations with Social partners and political parties. “There has already been an opening, a change. But I believe that now, you have to be able to move forward and engage, and that the government can do its job with the Parliament, with serenity, the will to convince and make advance the country, “he argued.
While defending the right to strike and to demonstrate, the Head of State wished that there are “the least possible nuisances for all our compatriots”.