President Emmanuel Macron estimated Thursday that, on pensions, it is up to the government to “find the right maneuver” with Parliament, demanding that the reform be done “in the most peaceful way possible”.
“The government must launch a discussion with the social forces, trade unions and employers, with the political forces, and find, it is its job, with the Parliament the good maneuver”, assured the Head of State in an interview with BFMTV produced overnight from Wednesday to Thursday. “They will see how this should go,” he added, ensuring that he did not want to “preempt” the content of the reform which corresponds, he recalled, to “ a campaign commitment “.
The opposition in the Assembly, as well as part of the majority, have come out in recent days against the tabling of an amendment on this subject in the Social Security financing bill (PLFSS), in which they see “a passage in force”. The President of the National Assembly (Renaissance) Yaël Braun-Pivet declared Thursday that she was “not in favor” of this reform going through an amendment, asking the government to “take the time for consultation”. All the more so since the budget text will very probably pass thanks to the recourse of article 49.3 of the Constitutionwhich allows the adoption of a text without a vote except for a motion of censure.
“Work a little longer because you happen to live a little longer”
“Precisely because we are going through a serious moment for our country, our continent, we cannot have a serious policy that is based on lies. And the truth is that we have to work more and produce more wealth in our country if we want to protect, have a policy of social justice and defend the French social model, ”explained Emmanuel Macron, who was returning from the Assembly. General of the United Nations in New York. “If we want to do this, we have to do it in a transparent way, in a clear way, in the most peaceful way possible “, he added.
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Citing the aid measures against inflation but also the reforms of the vocational school and unemployment insurance, or the climate transition, the president said he was “lucid”. “All these investments, we must make them, we must continue to protect, to invest in the future, we can only do this if we produce more wealth”, he detailed. ” So have more people at work and work a little longer because we happen to live a little longer”.
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