In the midst of a political crisis, the opening of Elisabeth was appreciated to a suspension of the controversial pension reform, this Tuesday, October 7, as a “alarm” and “a path” by the PS and the public square, “a positive signal” by the CFDT, the CGT by calling Emmanuel Macron to “no more will make more eye.”
First of the central block to evoke this possibility, the minister renounces Elisabeth Borne said that she was open to a “suspension” of the very unpopular pension reform that had adopted, without vote, in 2023, in an interview with El Parisino, judging that “the stability of the country was more important” than a possible “totem” on pensions and requesting a solution.
According to the information of the same newspaper, the resigned Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu would have asked Bercy to study the impact of a suspension of pension reform, fifteen days ago.
A “possible” reform suspension
The Minister of the Economy resigns, Roland Lescure said that the “ways of passage” among the various political forces to provide France for a budget by 2026, in an interview also granted to Parisino, which will be published on Wednesday.
“I am here to eliminate political uncertainty, and there are ways to start the step. I guarantee that the output copy will be very different from the entrance,” he said.
The extended hand is shown in pensions: “It is a late awakening, but it is a positive awakening,” PS Olivier Faure chief reacted on France 2, which he must receive Wednesday morning in Matignon. “But what I want is that we can now bring debates to the assembly,” he added.
The suspension of pension reform “becomes possible,” said Raphaël Glucksmann, the leader in the public square, after meeting with Sébastien Lecornu, welcoming this “path.”
A “positive signal” for unions
In terms of unions, the CFDT has seen in the position of Elisabeth in charge of “a positive signal”, reacted to its general secretary, Marylise Léon, with AFP. “The pension reform is a deep democratic lesion, its suspension and the derivation in 2027 could begin to repair it,” he said. As for the possible criticism of the cost of a suspension, Marylise Léon opposed them the expenses linked to a solution.
For the first Confederation of the Union, a “crossing route” is possible for this suspension: “The cursor of the age gap no longer moves until the next presidential elections,” Léon said.
The general secretary of the CGT Sophie Binet considered “this flip-flop” of Elisabeth, born as “an admission: pension reform is a failure.” “The head of state can no longer afford to convert a deaf ear,” he told the AFP, remembering that his power plant is claiming the repeal of this reform “from the beginning.”
The reform, which fed mass manifestations and was still a reason for mobilization in the processions of this social school year, gradually is 62 to 64 years old the legal retirement age.
The union organizations had replaced pensions in the heart of their discussions with the renouncing prime minister Sébastien Lecornu, in bilateral or interunion.
Source: BFM TV
