Elisabeth Borne met on Wednesday, Eric Ciotti, the new boss of the Republicans, who refuses, for the moment, any agreement with the government, but judges the reform “necessary” and claims less “brutality”.
by Claire Gatinois
Politics is also a tactics matter. In the thorny file of the pension reform, Emmanuel Macron gets impatient but lets Elisabeth Borne play the watch, yielding here a few months, there a few more weeks before presenting this dynamity file. The challenge is to have the text adopted by avoiding a force pass. The Prime Minister believes in it. Will she end up winning?
Wednesday, December 21, after an hour -hour meeting between the tenant of Matignon and Eric Ciotti, the new boss of the Republicans, strategic party in the National Assembly to avoid yet another 49.3 (an adoption Text without a vote), he already hovered, rue de Varenne, the scent of a small victory. “It is too early to imagine an agreement. But we identified points of convergence,” we explained to Matignon.
At the end of this breakfast, the deputy of the Alpes-Maritimes no longer had the vindictive tone of systematic opponents. The pension reform is “necessary”, he hammered in the world, going down the plane which brought him back to Nice, speaking of “postponing the retirement age, and or increasing the duration contribution “. Admittedly, the boss of the right is not tender with the head of state: “Much time has been lost, and if the government presents a reform with so brutal contours, it is that Emmanuel Macron procrastinated for Six years, “says Eric Ciotti. But before the Prime Minister, he did not speak of red lines. He just talks about “conditions” so that the reform was born with, perhaps, the approval of the right. And to pride itself on the “key role” that LR, “Party of government which aspires to return to it”.
divisions at LR as for the reform
Beyond dwelling on the questions of arduousness, work of seniors or minimum pensions, especially for chopped careers, Eric Ciotti claims less “brutality”: “We are in a context of extreme tension , purchasing power crisis in the aftermath of an unprecedented health crisis. Companies are in difficulty, “he said. So yes, you have to make the reform, he says, but gently. The figure that has become a totem of a retirement at 65 (against 62 today), brandished by Macronie since the presidential campaign, is not an absolute overhaul. “The question is mainly that of the rhythm, underlines the president of LR. It is not the same thing to say that we go to 65 years in 2027 or 64 years in 2027 or even 64 years in 2031”.
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