Socialist parliamentarians will not participate for the moment in “any consultation” with Elisabeth Borne on the post-pension reform, they announced on Sunday, but First Secretary Olivier Faure will go to Matignon to discuss the “general situation of the country.”
“We do not wish to participate in any consultation on the continuation of the parliamentary calendar (…) before knowing the follow-up given to his meeting with the inter-union scheduled for April 5,” write Olivier Faure, Boris Vallaud and Patrick Kanner, heads the PS groups in the Assembly and the Senate, in a letter addressed to the Prime Minister.
The other forces of the Nupes left-wing coalition -LFI, PCF, EELV- had already announced the boycott of these consultations.
“Our conviction is that the condition for the appeasement of the country, as well as the reestablishment of the dialogue with the parliamentarians, is in the withdrawal of the reform” of the pensions, emphasize the leaders of the PS.
Faure in Matignon to discuss “the general situation”
And “it is for the sole purpose of discussing the general situation of the country that Olivier Faure, first secretary of the Socialist Party, will meet with you”, they continue, without specifying the date of this meeting in Matignon.
A socialist parliamentary source believes that the PS is in the same line as the EELV, which declined the consultation organized by the Prime Minister on post-retirement, but organized a meeting between the leader of the green party Marine Tondelier and Elisabeth Borne to discuss ” the maintenance of order, the climate of violence against environmentalists and the necessary appeasement” on Tuesday.
Elisabeth Borne multiplies the meetings on Monday to try to “appease” the tensions, consultations boycotted by the parliamentary groups of the left and that could become a dialogue of the deaf with the inter-union on Wednesday, given the inflexibility of the Executive in the postponement at 64 years of the legal retirement age.
Source: BFM TV
