Pension reform: unions and parties, tumultuous liaisons

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The cancellation of a meeting between the unions and the left-wing parties demonstrates, once again, that relations between the two formations are complicated.

By Michel Revol

MWednesday, February 15, at 3 p.m., the National Assembly begins the afternoon session devoted to pension reform. The hemicycle is well stocked; the deputies are ready to scrap. But the first speech has only a rather distant link with the heart of the matter. It deals with a meeting scheduled, then aborted, between the parties of Nupes and the inter-union opposed to the reform. On the menu of this interview, the rhythm of the debates in the Assembly: the unions want them to accelerate in order to approach the famous article 7 (which pushes back the retirement age to 64 years), certain parties are d Okay, LFI is rather opposed to it.

It is the deputy LR Fabien Di Filippo who puts the subject on the table, seizing the opportunity of a point of order. Light suit and blue tie, he…