Arthur De Laborde, with AFP
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7:31 p.m., March 28, 2023
The MoDem deputies, members of the presidential majority, are in favor of setting up mediation around the pension reform, as proposed by the leader of the CFDT Laurent Berger, they announced on Tuesday, against the government. “It’s good to have one or two people to try to find the dialogue and have a certain distance”, underlined the president of the centrist group Jean-Paul Mattei, during a press point at the Assembly.
“A mediator does not interfere in the background, he is there to find the binder and manage to talk to each other, that’s what is important. You need someone who is not involved” directly in the reform, said insisted this close to François Bayrou. “We call for and encourage mediation, if it is possible”, added his colleague Philippe Vigier, who wants to insist on the “review clause” of the reform in 2027 allowing to make a progress point.
The end of inadmissibility of the government
Opposed to the pension reform, the number one of the CFDT Laurent Berger called on Tuesday the executive to set up a “mediation” to “find a way out” of the social crisis, a request which will be the subject of a letter from the inter-union to the President of the Republic. But the executive opposed an end of inadmissibility.
“We take Laurent Berger’s proposal to talk to each other, but directly. No need for mediation”, replied government spokesman Olivier Véran, during the report of the Council of Ministers organized during the 10th day of action against reform, at the call of the unions. Also in the presidential majority, the president of the Horizons group Laurent Marcangeli “does not see the point of appointing a third person to organize this dialogue”.
At the MoDem, beyond this question of mediation, Jean-Paul Mattei “hopes that this legislature will not stop with this pension reform. We want to bounce back and refocus on important texts for our society”, has he demanded. “It can be about aging well, sharing value, housing, the environment and green industry”, he listed, wanting “to bring our stone to a form of rebound which seems necessary to me. to the life of Parliament”.