For the former Prime Minister, despite the surveys and the mobilizations, “the executive has not lost the battle of opinion” on the pension reform being carried out by the government.
“I said in my youth that the street does not rule, it is only a fraction of the people, it is not the people,” launched Jean-Pierre Raffarin this Thursday night on the BFMTV set.
He was reacting to the latest poll “L’Opinion en direct” by the Elabe institute for BFMTV this Wednesday, which produced a scathing observation for Emmanuel Macron and Élisabeth Borne: 72% of French people reject the pension reform project, a six point jump of the measure taken a week ago… and 13 points of the width established two weeks upstream.
An “insufficient” reform
What do opinion polls matter to the previous historical framework of the UMP. According to him, only Parliament can judge this reform that “goes in the right direction but is insufficient.”
“The people are represented in the National Assembly and the Senate […] Now we have to know if there is a parliamentary majority and make our representative democracy work”, he added.
Whatever happens, Jean-Pierre Raffarin wants this reform to be approved: “If it is not today, it is tomorrow.” However, the former Prime Minister judges that the current reform only regulates “the horizons to 2030” but that “uncertainties after 2040” remain.
“It is not enough to ensure the financing of our social model in the very long term”, he concluded.
Source: BFM TV
