This time it’s the right one. Finally, maybe. The dinner organized at the Elysee Palace, Wednesday September 28, between Emmanuel Macron, his Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne, the boss of the MoDem, François Bayrou, that of Horizons, Edouard Philippe, and the leaders of the parliamentary groups of the majority should make it possible to close the debate on the method of implementing the pension reform. Let it be conducted “hussar”, as the unions denounce, via an amendment to the Social Security financing bill (PLFSS), or in a less hasty way, it ” will “, we hammer at the Elysée. With the will of Mr. Macron that it comes into force in the summer of 2023.
It remains to be seen how. If the idea of a dedicated bill, presented at the start of 2023, raises fears of a stalemate, a “third way” is now being considered by the executive: that of an amending bill to the PLFSS, presented by January 2023. The implementation of the reform would then only be a matter of months, or even weeks. “The Head of State told the French during the presidential campaign, he was elected to do so. Now everyone has to take responsibility. Waiting has no virtue”blows an adviser to the President of the Republic.
Impatience has become palpable at the Elysée. As with some of the deputies of the majority, where the subject ends up tiring, by dint of stretching. “It’s like a parachute jump, at some point you have to get started. Most of the time, it goes well”sighs Eric Woerth, elected Renaissance (ex-La République en Marche) of Oise, who led a pension reform, in 2010, when he was minister of Nicolas Sarkozy.
For more than two years now, the subject of pensions has floated in the atmosphere, weighing on the popularity of the head of state without anything having yet materialized. The reform, which appeared in the presidential program of candidate Macron in 2017, was however on the verge of completion in March 2020, before being stopped dead by the eruption of Covid-19. decreeing the country ” in war “against the coronavirus, Emmanuel Macron then decides to suspend any reform, “to begin” plot ” retirements “.
months of suspense
A year and a half later, in July 2021, after a life hit by confinements and certificates, the Head of State promises to relaunch the aborted reform. With the concern of preserving its reforming DNA and of stitching up the thread of its five-year term. But the tempo remains unclear. The project must be started, “as soon as the sanitary conditions are met”then indicates Emmanuel Macron.
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