The executive may want to accelerate, the pension reform is not yet on track. Rather on a winding path littered with criticism. A week ago, Emmanuel Macron had however succeeded in a first step: reinstalling this reform announced during the presidential campaign in the back-to-school landscape. During a response to journalists from the Presidential Press Association on September 12, the President of the Republic had admitted that he had not ruled out the possibility of integrating it into the Social Security financing bill (PLFSS), presented on September 26 to the Council of Ministers. Since then, everyone has positioned themselves and the majority is divided. Rushing even if it means tensing up or procrastinating to try to convince, the dilemma of the coming week is both simple and thorny.
This weekend, two important voices spoke out strongly against integration into the PLFSS. In an interview at Parisian published Saturday evening September 17, François Bayrou warned. “I am opposed to the forced passagedeclares the president of the Modem, ally of always of the head of the State and whose party belongs to the majority. If we embark on this path, then we are sure to first unite the oppositions between them, then to divide French society. All this because we would not have taken the time for pedagogy. »
Sunday noon, Laurent Berger, secretary general of the CFDT, spoke to him about a “brutal measure” which would give the impression of being done “walk on the mouth” before threatening to put an end to all discussions, in particular those barely begun within the National Council for Refoundation (CNR). « [S’]there is an amendment in the PLFSS on the retreatsthe CFDTde facto, leaves the CNR and discussions on all subjectswarned Mr. Berger during the program “Political Questions”, on France Inter and Franceinfo, in partnership with The world. Yes, we will go out because there will be disloyalty. »
“Immobilism and blockage”
Last week, the possible acceleration of the calendar had already not been well received by some of the deputies of the majority. Even if most macronists agree on the substance, that is to say on the imperative of an age measurement, some fear that the addition of an amendment to the PLFSS will transform the Assembly into a fight. A battle in the Chamber which could end with an appeal, necessarily brutal, to article 49.3 of the Constitution, which would allow the bill to be passed without a vote by engaging the responsibility of the government. They would prefer a specific text at the beginning of 2023 to give everyone time to study the different aspects of the reform, such as long careers, hardship, etc. The President of the National Assembly, Yaël Braun-Pivet, is on this position. In The ParisianMr. Bayrou detailed: “The passage in force, it is the opposite of the spirit of the CNR, which claims to examine the problems together. Without wasting time, but without evading the exchange necessary for the French to adhere. The president said in his campaign that the French were fed up with the reforms that fell ready-made from the top. I defend this message. »
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