The executive does not intend to be held back in its political line. “The pension reform does not sign the retirement of the reforms”, assured the spokesman of the government, Olivier Véran, in an interview with the Sunday newspaper.
“There will be other reforms tomorrow, led by us or by the governments that will succeed us,” he told the weekly. Among these future texts, some “will be unpopular, but necessary for the future of the country”, and validated “democratically (…) by legitimate Parliaments”, he insists.
The executive will have to face, next Tuesday, a 10th day of mobilization against the pension reform, whose political future is now in the hands of the Constitutional Council, while tensions in the street are growing. “We cannot allow the idea to settle that violence would be a justifiable or understandable reaction”, reacted Olivier Véran.
In the wake of Emmanuel Macron, the spokesperson also reaffirmed that the executive intended to collaborate with the union forces, yet the wind standing against the reform, on other subjects. “We will not agree on the decline at 64, but alongside this question there are many others, essential for the French, on which we want to work with them”, he said. argues, citing the “end-of-career management”, “professional retraining” or even the “revaluation of wages below the Smic”.
The agency’s agenda
The roadmap could, all the same, be slightly modified. Looking ahead, the Minister responsible for Democratic Renewal said that the government was going to “rearrange” the parliamentary agenda to “respond to the daily concerns of the French people: access to doctors, class closures, access identity papers”.
In the absence of an absolute majority in the Assembly, “we must also think about how to proceed without necessarily systematically resorting to the law”, he adds, also pleading for “better involving the people in decision-making”. For example, “we are going to postpone the text on immigration and integration. This is a topic on which it would be interesting to allow society to reflect.