“We are returning to the time of the government proposal.” On a trip to Barcelona this Thursday for a Franco-Spanish summit, Emmanuel Macron could not escape questions related to the day of mobilization against the pension reform.
While 1.12 million people demonstrated in France according to the Ministry of the Interior, the CGT announced 2 million protesters on January 19. Still uncertain until recently, the scope of the opposition took the form of a show of force against the government’s text.
“You have to do this reform”
Even so, the Head of State does not intend to renounce this reform that will reach the National Assembly at the beginning of February. “It will give rise to parliamentary political work”, declared Emmanuel Macron, who praised this stage of drafting the law “which will allow all the political forces in the National Assembly and the Senate to express themselves, enrich the project and power to complete a reform”. .
However, the president affirmed that this “fair and responsible” reform was “democratically presented, validated.”
“We must carry out this reform”, argued Emmanuel Macron once again, “we will do it with respect, a spirit of dialogue but determination and a spirit of responsibility”.
A guest of the “BFMTV Forum”, Labor Minister Olivier Dussopt recalled that this reform was on the agenda of the candidate for president Emmanuel Macron during the last presidential elections.
“It is not a reform that treats the French as traitors […] In the debate that is coming, everything that goes in the direction of improvement, we remain open to it”, the minister declared again on our antenna, “in Parliament there will surely be amendments and debates […] if we can keep improving reform, we’ll keep improving it.”
Source: BFM TV
