The former Prime Minister and Patron of the Horizons party posted his “unambiguous” support for the Prime Minister and the Government as part of the pension reform project they carry. = “CACTION”> MO12345LEMONDE with AFP
Edouard Philippe assured Thursday, February 2 on bfm-tv that he supported “without ambiguity, without downside without I do not know what a small circumvolution” the pension reform carried by the government, which “aims to restore financial balance” and “tries to correct some injustices”.
At the start of his long interview, shot in his councilor office in Le Havre, he said that this pension reform “is important, difficult, disputed but necessary”.
“I will try to say why it seems to me that this reform is necessary, why it is good for the nation, and why people (…) must take into account demographic, financial and economic reality. (…) It There are advances in this text, there will undoubtedly be others during the discussion in Parliament. “
Known to be a supporter of a postponement of the departure age to “at 65, 66 or 67”, Edouard Philippe has been criticized in recent weeks in the majority for his low media support for reform Pensions carried by the current government, which provides for the postponement of the starting age from 62 to 64 years. Thursday, he tried to modify this image, welcoming the decision of the majority of “committed [R] at the start of the five -year period” in this site. However, he considered that this reform is “more limited in its ambitions (…) than the reform of 2019”, carried by his government, which provided for the abolition of the forty-two special regimes and the implementation of a regime Universal.
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” Confidence in parliamentary debate “
Questioned on the large mobilization against the pension reform, the mayor of Le Havre recognized the “strong opposition of the French” to the bill, citing the example of his city where 13,000 people demonstrated on Tuesday, ” -VU “, according to him, for more than twenty years that he has been mayor.
While critical voices at the pension reform raised themselves within the Horizons group within the National Assembly, some threatening not to vote the reform as it is, Mr. Phillipe assured: “I Do not believe that there are refractories. (…) Horizons deputies will participate loyally in this debate. “
The former head of government pleaded his “confidence in the parliamentary debate” and wanted the text to be enriched during his visit to the hemicycle, in particular to “correct some injustices” which could nestle in his version current.
“Let’s be careful (…) that, anxious to ensure that the reform is better accepted, and anxious to ensure that there is more justice, which is never a bad goal, we lost to view the system balance imperative. “
As for the supposed support of the deputies Les Républicains (LR) to the reform, necessary for the government so that the text can be adopted, Mr. Philippe, from the ranks of the right, assured: “I think that At the end, the Republicans will take their responsibilities. “