“There will be no Horizons minister in a government that reverses the pension reform,” party spokesperson Arnaud Péricard told BFMTV this Friday, October 10.
This statement comes when Emmanuel Macron proposed, for example, postponing until after the presidential elections the measure on the starting age of the pension reform, during a meeting at the Elysée with party leaders, including Édouard Philippe.
“It is always possible to make modifications and adjustments and we are open to debate. Going back to this is no,” adds Arnaud Péricard.
In this case, the party would move towards support without participation, according to information from Le Figaro, confirmed by BFMTV. “We are waiting to know who will be appointed prime minister and what debates will be held,” Édouard Philippe’s entourage added to BFMTV.
In X, the party clarified that “Horizons’ position on possible government involvement will be formulated when the Prime Minister is known.”
The “stunned” left
Emmanuel Macron must appoint a Prime Minister “in the next few hours”, but not from the left, the party leaders reported on Friday afternoon at the end of the crisis meeting at the Elysée that “surprised” the left, disappointed by the absence of a “clear answer”, in particular on pensions. Olivier Faure, first secretary of the Socialist Party, refused to give a “guarantee of non-censorship” to the future executive, which was nevertheless the main topic of the meeting.
“Everything is going to end very badly” with a possible “dissolution” of the National Assembly, even Marine Tondelier said, “stunned.”
The Head of State considered, on the contrary, that there is “a possible way to reach compromises and avoid dissolution,” his entourage informed BFMTV. Regarding pensions, he took up “a CFDT proposal” aimed at “moving the postponement of the legal age from January 1, 2027 to January 1, 2028”, which he “did not support” but cited “as an example in the debate”, we added.
Source: BFM TV
