The former Prime Minister claims to support the pension reform carried out by the government and believes that it “corrects some injustices”.
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Edouard Philippe assured Thursday that he supported “without ambiguity, without flat, without I do not 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”, declared the former Prime Minister during a meeting. an interview with BFMTV.
“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 s engage sufficiently in the defense of the text.
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The “system balance” imperative
But “let’s take care […] 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 sight of the imperative of balancing the system”, nevertheless warned Édouard Philippe. Asked about Horizons MPsof which half a dozen are reluctant to vote for the text, Édouard Philippe replied: “I do not believe that there are refractories. […] There are members who ask questions, and they are quite right. »
These deputies “say in the state that they will not vote. I would prefer them to 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’s his job, ”insisted the mayor of Le Havre.
“Cordial” relations with Emmanuel Macron
Former Prime Minister Édouard Philippe has described his relationship with President Emmanuel Macron as “cordial”, “loyal”, but “distant”. “When I am asked the question, I often say that they (these relations, editor’s note) are both cordial and distant”, declared on BFMTV Édouard Philippe, who was head of government from 2017 to 2020, and to whom are lent presidential ambitions in 2027.
These relations “are cordial because (…) I like to discuss with him, I always learn a lot when I listen to him, that I had the opportunity to work very closely (…) when I was at Matignon, that I helped him in his presidential campaign, ”detailed Édouard Philippe, now president of the Horizons political movement, an ally of the majority.
His relations with Emmanuel Macron are also “loyal. Whenever the President of the Republic is in the breath and in the ambition of reforms of 2017, I am with him and behind him”, he underlined. “Now (our relations) are a little more distant, because I am here (in Le Havre, editor’s note), he is in Paris and because we do not have immediate proximity”, he added.