“We will not give up on a pension reform,” warned the government spokesman on LCI on Monday.
The government has been hammering it for a few days now: the use of 49.3, on pension reform, is not an option. At least, far from ideal. Way to be firm, serene, while the final vote should take place this week.
At any rate, “we will not give up on our pension reform“, warns Olivier Véran. Invited on LCI, the government spokesperson believes that “The Senate’s vote on our bill shows that there is a way for us to get an agreement in joint committee ». He adds : “49.3 is not a taboo, it is a constitutional tool, but it is not an option that we use either. It’s not a tool you would have in your pocket, ready to draw.»
“Text Enrichment”
Guest on France Inter, Gabriel Attal, assures him: “If everyone is consistent with their commitments, there will be a majority to vote for this text“, wants to believe the Minister of the Budget. “We don’t want to use 49.3. Today, we do not see why it should be.This, argues Gabriel Attal, “because the Republicans in Senate voted on the text”.
“The LRs of the National Assembly are a priori part of the same political family, are committed behind their presidential candidate who proposed an even tougher reform: at 65 years old. And if, after all the negotiations, the presidential camp saw the favorable vote of the right-wing group in the National Assembly slip away? “We didn’t necessarily make concessions to LRs“, retorts Gabriel Attal who prefers to greet”enrichment of the text“.
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On France Info, the Minister of the Economy, Bruno Le Maire, in turn engages: “It would be odd for a party to vote for reform in the Senate and not in the Assembly. I would not like the LR deputies to forget what makes up the culture of their party: you cannot say you are on the right and refuse the balance of public finances or the balance of the pay-as-you-go system.»
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