Europe 1 with AFP
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11:36 p.m., February 02, 2023
Former Prime Minister Edouard Philippe gives his absolute support to the pension reform instigated by the government of Elisabeth Borne. The founder of the Horizons party believes that the bill essentially aims to “correct the injustices” and flaws in the current pension system.
Édouard Philippe assured Thursday that he supported “unambiguously, without flat, without I don’t know what small convolution” the pension reform carried by the government which “aims to restore financial balance” and “tries to correct some injustices”. “If we want to guarantee our country, which is difficult, constant prosperity, even more prosperity, and if we are to finance measures of social justice, then we must work more,” the former prime minister said during a meeting. an interview with BFMTV.
“The reform as it was prepared by Olivier Dussopt and Élisabeth Borne, it aims to restore financial balance and it tries, and I believe it succeeds in a certain number of cases, to correct some injustices. there are advances in this text, there will undoubtedly be others during the discussion in Parliament”, developed the president of the Horizons party, an ally of Emmanuel Macron but criticized in the presidential camp for not engaging. enough in defense of the text.
Edouard Philippe in solidarity with the reluctant elected officials of his camp
But “let us be careful (…) that, anxious to ensure that the reform is better accepted, and anxious to ensure that there is more justice, which is never a bad objective, we lose of view the imperative of balance of the system”, nevertheless warned Édouard Philippe. Asked about the Horizons deputies, half a dozen of whom are reluctant to vote for the text, Mr. Philippe replied: “I do not believe that there are any refractories. (…) There are deputies who pose questions, and they are quite right”.
These deputies “say in the state that they will not vote. I would prefer that they say: ‘I would like there to be this or that to vote for it’. but let’s move on…”. “I will never ban or criticize a deputy, in my camp or elsewhere, because he asks questions, he interrogates and he wants to improve a text. It is his job”, has insisted the mayor of Le Havre.