If the inter-union continues to show determined opposition to the pension reform that the Government wants, it will propose a plan on Tuesday to get out of the crisis.
This plan is based on a pause in the application of its article 7 (postponement of the age of majority from 62 to 64 years).
So, “you have to take a month, a month and a half to ask one, two, three people to mediate, to go see the different parties. And then we sit at the table and look at the issue of retirement. , of work, on which there would be a social commitment”, explains this Tuesday in France Inter Laurent Berger, the head of the CFDT.
“That is the proposal made by the inter-union union, so we are going to write to the President of the Republic to validate this proposal in writing,” adds Philippe Martínez, the head of the CGT.
“It’s very smart of Laurent Berger”
Above all, Laurent Berger adds: “My part is to say: if we don’t agree within six months on the question of work and the balance of pensions, let’s go back to 64 but let’s make way for social commitment.”
“It’s a novelty, it’s an idea that Laurent Berger had never expressed before,” says Amandine Atalaya, editorial writer for BFMTV. “He allows the situation to calm down and seems to be able to offer Emmanuel Macron a way out since from the beginning the president rejects the idea of a compromise because he is determined to apply this reform. It gets harder to say no, it’s very smart of Laurent Berger.”
An opinion shared by Bruno Jeudy, political columnist for BFMTV. “Macron is taken at his word and there he is surrounded on all sides,” he underlines. “How long will Emmanuel Macron hold out not to respond and tighten the points, wait for the Constitutional Council, bet on wear and tear? No, he will not work his bet on wear and tear.”
“Macron is taken at his word”
“What we want is to put the file to the right. It is having time to talk about the issues of the evolution of work and at the same time address the issue of pensions. With this, we take the opportunity to demonstrate that there are other solutions than postponing the age from 62 to 64 years. We are in a discussion logic, it is a gesture of responsibility “, explains on BFMTV, Yvan Ricordeau, National Secretary of the CFDT.
Even so, the constitutional calendar is not the same as that of the unions. “It’s too long in this context of tensions. What the inter-union offers today is a gesture of appeasement” that “must be captured,” said Laurent Berger.
“Now we are talking about a date that could be April 18, that is still a long way off. Does that mean that the inter-union in the meantime will mobilize on a big day like today every week with the risks involved that are a real concern?” , analyzes Bruno Jeudy.
“We don’t necessarily need mediation to talk to each other”, says Olivier Véran
Especially since it now seems that young people are joining the movement en masse. “It is a real concern for the government, at all levels. And yesterday in Matignon, there was great concern about the presence of young people”, underlines the editorialist.
Faced with this new outstretched hand, Olivier Véran, government spokesman, indicates: “we don’t necessarily need mediation to talk to each other.” The government spokesman believes, however, that we will have to wait for the opinion of the Constitutional Council.
“We took Laurent Berger’s proposal to talk to each other, but directly. There is no need for mediation, ”he assured during the report of the Council of Ministers. “There is no mediator in the Republic when we can talk to each other directly,” he insisted.
On BFMTV, Xavier Albertini, deputy Horizons (majority) of the Marne explains for his part that “this opening is a possibility. But we must not forget that the President of the Republic responds to a constitution and before the general process that respects the Constitution, we have an intermediate stage called the Constitutional Council, it is convenient to wait” for its opinion, he affirms. And propose to the unions “suspend the demonstrations”…
Source: BFM TV
