an appointment without illusions at Matignon

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Elisabeth Borne hopes to stay at Matignon and turn the page on pensions with new projects. Sebadelha Julie/Sebadelha Julie/ABACA

Elisabeth Borne receives the unions on Wednesday to try to renew the dialogue. But the two parties remain inflexible and the meeting could be cut short.

Elisabeth Borne did not need to wait for the unions to hear the sensitive word ringing in her ears. As of Tuesday, the Prime Minister was asked to “withdrawal” of its pension reform, by the voice of the leaders of the Socialist Party and the Greens, Olivier Faure and Marine Tondelier, received at Matignon. A prelude to his meeting with the inter-union, Wednesday, on the eve of an eleventh day of mobilization.

Highly anticipated, the meeting could however turn into a dialogue of the deaf. The head of government persists in saying “listening to all subjects”, but she was warned by the new boss of the CGT, Sophie Binet: if she does not give up her bill, adopted through 49.3, this meeting “risk of being very fast”.

Same attitude on the side of the CFDT if it is not possible to evoke retirement at 64, warned his boss, Laurent Berger. Union executives prefer not to make predictions, but one of them does not believe in the threat of a meeting of a few minutes: “We must give the Prime Minister time to speak, then to go around the table. Afterwards, if the government does not want to back down, this meeting will be closer to an hour and a half than three hours.

The risk of a shortened appointment

In Matignon, Elisabeth Borne’s cabinet is preparing for the scenario of a shortened meeting. “It is a risk of social dialogue that the Prime Minister is ready to take, his entourage responds. Everyone will perhaps camp on their positions. We remain in the listening and in the opening: we do not plan to build the continuation without the unions.


We cannot take a break when we have a bill that has been voted on, which is being examined by the Constitutional Council

Elisabeth Borne, Prime Minister

However, they refuse to imagine the post-retirement period without looking back on the legal age. After having repeatedly complained of not having been received by the government, union officials repeated their strategy on Tuesday, during a meeting at the Paris headquarters of the CFDT. In the closed session of the discussions, some of them were moved by the absence of preparatory exchanges with the advisers of Matignon – from “never seen”, according to them.

A slow poison

The trade unionists also reaffirmed their line: the withdrawal of the text remains a prerequisite for the discussion that Elisabeth Borne wishes to open on hardship or work. “We cannot take a break when we have a bill that has been voted on, which is being examined by the Constitutional Council”, the Prime Minister answered them in advance on Friday during a visit to Nièvre on education.

The head of government is still awaiting the decision of the high court, scheduled for April 14. Unions too. If the law is completely censored, “it will be very good”, said Laurent Berger on Tuesday in an interview with The Obs.

As for the hypothesis of an opening of the referendum procedure of shared initiative (RIP), he considers that it could be “the opportunity not to promulgate this law and to start again on a good basis”. An option that Matignon claims for the time being not to consider. In the presidential camp, several officials are already worried about the race for the 4.7 million signatures necessary to provoke a consultation, a slow poison according to them.

By summer, Élisabeth Borne hopes to stay at Matignon and turn the page on pensions with new projects: a “full-employment” bill on the quality of life at work, another on the “end of life “, the military programming law, presented this Tuesday in the Council of Ministers…

These last two texts should be on the menu of her discussions with the tenors of the Republicans, whom the Prime Minister will also receive on Wednesday. Éric Ciotti, Olivier Marleix and Bruno Retailleau want to invite him to “work differently”, sans “precipitation”. For the Prime Minister, without an absolute majority, the other puzzle is political.

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