The meeting will focus “on the problems and the need for (the) reform.” Emmanuel Macron will meet next week with Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne, the leaders of the majority and the interested ministers to take stock of how to start the pension reform, the head of state’s delegation announced this Saturday.
Emmanuel Macron should on this occasion “remember the basics and get everyone up and running”, anticipates a member of the majority. After a Friday lunch between the President of the Republic and the Prime Minister, “all the options are still on the table”, assures the presidential delegation, while the reform divides even the majority.
The possibility of an amendment to the PLFSS
The scenario of a government reform to the Social Security Financing Bill (PLFSS), which will be presented on Monday to the Council of Ministers, divides the presidential majority. On September 12, the Head of State stressed to the press that this was the government’s decision but that the reform could not wait.
Critics of the PLFSS option, including the renaissance president of the National Assembly, Yaël Braun-Pivet, believe that it is necessary to take the time to consult and pass a bill next year.
“The president has always said that the reform would be done in consultation, but the consultation should not be used as a delaying tactic by those who simply do not want the reform and who still will not want it in three months or three years,” he stresses. an adviser to the executive, with reference to the trade union world.
A reform for the summer of 2023
Elisabeth Borne, who was asked by Emmanuel Macron to “find the right maneuver” with Parliament, should for her part explain herself on Monday morning on BFMTV and RMC.
“The president considers that, like the deputies of his majority, he has a very clear mandate from the French to reform,” adds the same source.
The president of the MoDem, François Bayrou, fiercely opposed to the PLFSS option, said for his part that he hoped on Friday to have convinced the executive to give up reforming pensions “in a surreptitious way.” On Thursday, before parliamentarians from the center party, Elisabeth Borne urged the various components of the majority to “speak with one voice.”
Source: BFM TV
