Marine Le Pen on Tuesday promised “total opposition” from the National Rally if the government tries to reform pensions this fall, as Emmanuel Macron hinted Monday evening before the Parliamentary Press Association.
“If Emmanuel Macron, as I can hear, uses the Social Security budget to attack pensions, that is to say, in reality to circumvent a genuine debate on this subject, he will find himself confronted with a total opposition on our part”, warned on France 2 the boss of the RN group in the National Assembly.
According to her, “there is absolutely no urgency to attack pensions at the precise moment when the French are confronted with difficulties of purchasing power which are major”.
“We will be, we deputies of the National Rally, at our posts to defend the French,” she assured.
Before specifying: “We do not need to go to the streets because Emmanuel Macron does not have an absolute majority in the National Assembly, so we will put him in the minority on his desire to reform pensions”.
On Monday, before the Presidential Press Association, the President of the Republic wanted the pension reform to come into force “from 2023”.
Will it be examined this fall as part of the Social Security budget, as some in the majority suggest? This decision “will belong” to the government, basically “things don’t matter”, he said.
Asked about the vote on the state budget, Marine Le Pen also confirmed “that there is still very little chance that we will vote on the budget” because “it is the financial translation of the major political choices of a government” and “our political vision is far from that of Emmanuel Macron”.
“If he wants to force his way through, he should be wary because as a general rule, when there is a 49.3, there can also be a motion of censure and we do not prohibit ourselves from voting for it”, a- she warned.
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The finalist of the last presidential election is also opposed to a new law on the end of life, as envisaged by the head of state.
“We don’t need a law, these are subjects that touch on the intimate, if indeed decisions have to be made, it’s up to the French people to make them, and in my opinion, that can only pass through a referendum,” said Marine Le Pen.
“As far as I am concerned, I am opposed to it, I think we have a law that is well done, the Claeys-Leonetti law and we must not go beyond it,” she added.
On Monday, the President of the Republic mentioned the launch of a citizens’ convention “from October”. “The idea”, he continued, “is to give ourselves around six months and, depending on the responses and feedback (…), before the end of 2023, if necessary, change the legal framework” .