The President of the National Assembly said she was convinced that consultation was still possible.
The President of the National Assembly Yaël Braun-Pivet assured Sunday that “the game is not doneon a legal retirement age of 65, while Elisabeth Borne is due to present her reform project on Thursday and Parliament will adopt it in early 2023. 65, as Emmanuel Macron announced, or 64? “This could, I think, change if the Assembly wants to go in that direction and the government is ready for it.“, declared the deputy Renaissance to France Inter-franceinfo-Le Monde. “I am completely open to + moves +, as long as the objectives of the reform can be achieved, that is to say a financial balance and social justice“, she added, insisting: “the game is not done“.
Emmanuel Macron had defended during the presidential campaign a postponement of the legal age from 62 to 65, before evoking once re-elected a decline to 64 years coupled with an increase in the contribution period. Postponement to 65 is now the preferred track, according to majority officials who participated in a dinner at the Élysée on Wednesday evening. Yaël Braun-Pivet did not participate because she was celebrating her birthday with her family.
The 65 years hold the rope
“We campaigned for weeks around the age of 65, so it wouldn’t be surprising if we entered the fray with an age of 65, so“Agreed government spokesman Olivier Véran on Sunday with RTL-Le Figaro-LCI. But “we are in constant consultation“, he specified. The Prime Minister must receive the bosses of the parliamentary groups until the middle of next week, before presenting the outlines of the reform project on Thursday, a date confirmed by Olivier Véran.
If no majority emerges at the start of 2023 in the National Assembly in favor of the reform, the government can always resort to the constitutional weapon of 49.3 to pass it without a vote. Yaël Braun-Pivet said to herself “convinced that there is a way, but the way is not found in advance” to avoid this recourse to 49.3 and achieve “a consensual reform“:”this is what consultation and parliamentary debate are for“. “The National Assembly is in a position to be the place par excellence of democratic debate“, who is “likely to calm the social climate“, she wants to believe.
The general secretaries of the CFDT and the CGT, Laurent Berger and Philippe Martinez, have already promised social mobilization “determined» in the event of a postponement of the departure age.