LIVE – Pensions: El Borne takes a step towards LR before a decisive week for the reform

On the side of the opponents of the pension reform, the determination does not wane, quite the contrary.

After two days of strikes and demonstrations, on January 19 and 31, the last of which surpassed the participation record of 2010, the intersindicale announced two new days of action at a more closed pace, on Tuesday the 7th and Saturday the 11th. of FEBRUARY.

The unions, however, remain cautious about their chances of matching the mobilization on Tuesday (1.27 million protesters according to the police, more than 2.5 million according to the organizers): school holidays began on Saturday for zone A and opponents of the reform could choose one or the other of the two dates.

Nailed by the National Financial Prosecutor’s Office (PNF) which retained the crime of “favouritism” for a future trial against the Minister of Labor, the latter retains “all confidence” in Matignon before decisive days for the reform of retirements.

The timing is not ideal, two days before the great explanation in the National Assembly. But the minister was not very surprised by the Mediapart article on Friday: his lawyer had received on January 23 the summary of the National Financial Prosecutor’s Office, which accuses him of “favouritism” in a public contract signed in 2009 with Saur, a water treatment plant waters. group, when Olivier Dussopt was mayor of Annonay (Ardèche).

As for the prime minister’s confidence, “she really has no choice,” opposition PS Jérôme Guedj judges to AFP.

With the JDDand in response to an interview given to Parisian by LR leader Éric Ciotti, the Prime Minister said she was ready to make concessions, under pressure from the right.

Without questioning the cardinal measure of the reform, the raising of the retirement age from 62 to 64, the president assured that “we are going to move forward by extending the system of long careers to those who have started working between the ages of 20 and 21 “, which will allow them to “go out at 63”.

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