Emmanuel Macron spoke about the ongoing debates in the Senate on the pension reform, calling to “respect parliamentary time”, this Friday during a press conference offered from the Élysée Palace together with British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.
“You have to respect this parliamentary time without making any fictitious scenario,” he asked.
“I let the senators work with the government,” he said.
The President of the Republic was speaking as the mobilization against a pension reform unpopular with many French people continued.
The “time for union bargaining” is over
“There was a time of union negotiation, then there is a time of executive work. Then there is a parliamentary time in the Assembly and then now in the Senate ”, she listed.
“The Senate is working hard, day and night, to continue with this text,” he later stressed, and said that he wanted the reform to go “to the end.”
The Head of State called for the debates to take place “in an atmosphere of calm, respect for agreements and disagreements, but also with a sense of responsibility in the context that is ours.”
Macron does not want to meet with the unions
Emmanuel Macron responded this Friday to the letter sent by the inter-union on the pension reform, reaffirming his determination to carry out the bill.
“The Government is, as it has always been, at your disposal to move forward through dialogue, to find innovative solutions, without compromising the need to restore a lasting balance in our pension system,” he writes, while affirming that he is attentive to the “anxieties” of a part of the French. He also refused to meet with the unions.
“We have the impression that nothing has happened to the President of the Republic since January 10,” the CFDT denounced at the time.
A seventh day of mobilization against the pension reform project is scheduled for this Saturday.
Source: BFM TV
