PARIS, March 26 (Reuters) – Elisabeth Borne wants to “appease the country” by consulting parliamentarians, unions and employers in the coming weeks to “accelerate on the priorities of the French”, it was said on Sunday in the entourage of the Prime Minister, while the adoption of the pension reform without a vote of the National Assembly on the text was violently contested.
While the inter-union, united in its rejection of the postponement of the legal retirement age from 62 to 64, plans a new day of strikes and demonstrations on Tuesday across France, Elisabeth Borne will meet Monday with President Emmanuel Macron.
The meeting between the Head of State and the Prime Minister will then be extended to the leaders of the majority and to several ministers, we learned from the Elysée.
The head of government also plans meetings with the president of the National Assembly, Yaël Braun-Pivet, the president of the Senate, Gérard Larcher, and the leaders of parliamentary groups, elected officials and party leaders, said her surroundings.
In addition, “the Prime Minister wishes to resume work with trade unions and employers’ organizations on many subjects relating to the quality of life at work, training, retraining (…) and build a shared social agenda”, adds- your.
The objective is to “accelerate on the priorities of the French”, continues his entourage, citing themes such as school, health, ecology, reindustrialization and order.
Elisabeth Borne intends to “go and meet the French on these themes”.
Two days after the rejection of two motions of censure against the government which led to the disputed adoption of the government bill on pensions, Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday instructed Elisabeth Borne to develop a legislative program by seeking upstream to build majorities in the National Assembly, where the presidential camp only has a relative majority.
The head of state and his government are challenged in the street after their decision on March 16 to use article 49.3 of the Constitution to have the pension reform project adopted despite several days of strikes and demonstrations at the appeal of the trade unions and the hostility, according to the opinion polls, of a majority of French people.
This protest has been punctuated by violence in many cities since this decision.
In an interview with Agence France presse, Elisabeth Borne specifies that the government will not have recourse in the future to article 49.3 of the Constitution “apart from the financial texts”. (Report Elizabeth Pineau, written by Bertrand Boucey)
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