A round of consultations launched by Elisabeth Borne and the future of the pension reform that depends on the decision of the Constitutional Council before April 14. In this “suspended time”, as a ministerial adviser calls it, the deputies want to regain control.
“We cannot wait without doing anything. There is a point of ‘it is urgent to wait’ that is unbearable. They do not offer us much, so we control ourselves,” annoyed a macronista parliamentarian.
Resume talks with unions
Suffice it to say that the raout organized by Emmanuel Macron at the Élysée on March 21 around the parliamentarians of the majority or the exchanges with the group presidents in Matignon, hardly seem enough seen from the National Assembly.
Well aware of the situation, Aurore Bergé, the patron saint of the Renaissance deputies, wants to launch the immediate opening of discussions with the unions on the interprofessional agreement on the distribution of added value.
Technical on paper, these negotiations aim to facilitate the payment of profit and profit sharing in all companies with between 11 and 49 employees if they generate, for three consecutive years, a significant profit, equal to at least 1% of their turnover. .
“Be the party of those who work”
What to see there, a way to round off the ends of the month for employees in a context of extremely high inflation, while renewing a relationship with the unions, which has been greatly degraded since the pension reform.
“We must be the party of those who work and respond to the concerns of employees with the demand for clear and quick results,” deciphers the Renaissance deputy Robin Reda.
However, without making waves. Among the deputies who are going to address this dialogue with the unions we find people very close to Emmanuel Macron, in particular David Amiel, his former adviser at the Élysée, Marc Ferraci, one of his close friends or even his former lieutenants. Bruno Le Maire as Louis Margueritte. Suffice it to say that the executive will retain control of the discussions.
“The pressure of having ideas”
Aurore Bergé will also organize next Wednesday a work seminar around lunch and then workshops that take up the topics mentioned by the president during his interview on TF1 and France 2. On the menu: health, ecology and schools.
“They put a lot of pressure on us to come in large numbers and with ideas, preferably good ones, so that they can then take them to the Elysée,” sums up an executive from the movement.
However, some doubt the success of the exercise when the end of the crisis seems very distant, among the French who continue to massively reject the reform and the unions determined to continue taking to the streets.
“We don’t really see where we’re going”
As for the president, he himself does not seem to have much bandwidth after his 1:00 p.m. news interview did not change the situation.
“I advocate a 2 or 3-month moratorium because we know very well that we are not going to appease the country with new bills, we must be able to say where we are going even if we do not know it at the moment. see”, says Ludovic Mendes, deputy from the left of the majority.
In the ranks of the majority we count on the search for a “brilliant idea” from the head of state to get out of the rut. Meanwhile, the inter-union is organizing a new day of mobilization on April 6.
Source: BFM TV
