Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne is due to receive the presidents of groups from the National Assembly and the Senate on Wednesday and Thursday in the midst of a debate on pension reform, according to her official agenda published on Tuesday.
The agenda is not limited to pensions, Matignon told AFP, stressing that Ms. Borne receives them ahead of the parliamentary session which begins on October 3 with, in particular, the examination of the unemployment insurance bill and the budget.
Mme Borne will first receive the representatives of the majority, then the independents in the Senate, the Communists and the ecologists of the two chambers, as well as the Centrist Union in the Senate.
In the afternoon, it will be the turn of the Freedom, Independence, Overseas and Territories group in the Assembly and the European Democratic and Social Rally in the Senate, the two presidents of the LR group and finally the Socialist representatives of the two chambers.
Thursday, Lisabeth Borne will receive Marine Le Pen, president of the RN group at the National Assembly.
Labor Minister Olivier Dussopt assured Tuesday that the hypothesis of a pension reform in the next Social Security budget is not entirely settled.
Despite the unanimous opposition of the unions and the opposition, the track of a reform by an amendment to the budget of the Scu is one of the scenarios envisaged by the executive, he nevertheless confirmed on RTL. Assuring that he wanted to avoid what is called a passage in force, he considered it normal that the government keep all possibilities.
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An amendment is not a swear word, estimated for his part on Monday on LCP and Public Snat the Minister Delegate for Relations with Parliament, Franck Riester, who will participate in these meetings.
The question of the calendar also animated the meeting of the group of Renaissance deputies (ex-LREM) on Tuesday morning, reported a participant. Decisions have to be made. It is a marker of courage. The PLFSS (social security financing bill, editor’s note) is first and foremost about social security and therefore pensions. Let’s go, pleaded ric Woerth (ex-LR), very applauded. But others spoke out against a reform via the draft budget of the Scu.
A member of the government was surprised this week at the method of using an amendment to the Scu’s draft budget, seeing it as a trial balloon. And warned against the temptation to overuse 49.3, at the risk of triggering the filing of a motion of censure on the part of the opposition.