Pension reform adopted: what does Emmanuel Macron intend to do?

The pension reform was finally adopted Monday in the Assembly. All eyes are now on the Élysée, which comes out weakened. Faced with popular anger, Emmanuel Macron will gather around him this Tuesday morning the Prime Minister, several members of the government as well as the presidents of the majority parliamentary groups and the presidents of Renaissance, Modem and Horizons.

He will have lunch at midday with the President of the Senate Gérard Larcher and the President of the National Assembly Yaël Braun-Pivet before inviting all the parliamentarians of the majority to the Palace this Tuesday evening. How do you get out of this case? The Head of State must determine his strategy.

Governing by decree, a solution?

Acting as if nothing had happened, well almost, is the strategy of Emmanuel Macron who will speak soon to explain himself but certainly not to back down. “It is not aimed at leftists who are blocking the country but at the French!”, Claims a party executive.

This is how a new strategy could well take shape in the coming weeks at the Élysée. “We plan to govern by decree”, assures a very close friend of Emmanuel Macron. “The French elected us to apply our program. The President does not see the problem”, he continues.

Another adviser advances this argument: “The deputies complain of having too much work. To advance by decrees would enable them to concentrate on the important texts.”

Emmanuel Macron plays his five-year term

The threat of the dissolution of the National Assembly is now forgotten. “It would be useless,” we slip backstage. “It would result in the same configuration in the hemicycle.”

As for Elisabeth Borne, Emmanuel Macron has no desire to part with it, because the President wants to move forward, at least, to escape the trap of immobility. His five-year term is now in play.