The delicate confrontation with reality. While the debates in the National Assembly on the pension reform begin this Monday, the renaissance deputies find it difficult to convince on the ground. Accustomed to television sets, the majority deputy, Nadia Hai, is also a member of the constituency where she wants to explain the controversial reform.
“Nobody forces me, but I almost feel obliged to go defend this reform, to explain it because we hear too much false information. And then explain why we are carrying out this reform”, explains the former municipal minister from 2020 to 2022.
“Tell us the true”
It’s just that, on the ground, the elected official often faces misunderstanding and anger when the subject of reform is brought up. “The reform is not ready, that is why it is not accepted,” explains a neighbor found in a market in Andrésy, in Yvelines.
“We are going to make people work longer, but explain to us why. Tell us the truth, that’s all”, hammers a crossed man a few minutes later.
In favor of dialogue and education, the deputy wants to explain the reform that the government wants, for which Élisabeth Borne announced that she would make some concessions to achieve a majority. “I find it unfortunate that we do not get to the heart of the matter and that the various parameters and characteristics that constitute this reform are not mentioned because we have just seen it, there is a lot of misunderstanding,” she explains.
Nadia Hai assures him that she will continue to get as close as possible to her constituents to explain the pension reform. She is also considering holding a public meeting in her constituency.
The executive and unions address this Monday a crucial week for the pension reform, the latter foresee two days of action to try to influence the debates that begin in the plenary session of the Assembly, with a weakened minister at the helm.
Without questioning the cardinal measure of the reform, the lowering of the retirement age from 62 to 64, Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne took a step this Sunday in the JDD towards the LR group, whose voices are fundamental to approving the reform.
“We are going to advance in extending the long-career system to those who started working between the ages of 20 and 21,” which will allow them “to leave at 63,” he announced.
Source: BFM TV
