The government spokesperson assures that things can be discussed in “law enforcement decrees”.
The outstretched hand of Laurent Berger was not seized. At the dawn of a tenth day of mobilization, the boss of the CFDT announced a “way outproposed to the executive. This would consist of setting up amediation“, acting as a “gesture of appeasement“. Leaving the Council of Ministers a few hours later, the government spokesman, Olivier Véran, however refused such a scenario.
“We don’t necessarily need mediation to talk to each other, we can talk to each other directly“, thus declared the minister, repeating in passing Emmanuel Macron’s disposition to “receive the intersyndicale once the Constitutional Council has ruled“. “Then the Prime Minister is at the disposal of the unions to receive them very directly“, he added. And to insist:We need to be able to talk to each other and discuss, and we believe that there is no need for mediation. There is no mediator in the Republic when we can talk to each other directly.»
“Rempart to illegitimate violence”
While Laurent Berger continues to claim a bet “outstandingof the measure for postponing the legal retirement age, Olivier Véran also brushed aside this possibility. The spokesperson instead called for a discussion “beyond the content of the pension reform, what we can do together to advance workers’ rights“.
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The Minister also referred tothe planned operational implementation of the law“, supposed to come into force in September, and which would contain according to him “a lot of points and discussions and exchanges that are necessary“. “Who says law, says implementing decrees and the law, and there are many things that can be discussed in the implementation of this pension bill“, he detailed.
On the violence that increasingly punctuates the demonstrations, Olivier Véran said to himself “particularly vigilant“so that there are no new ones”overflows», «and this thanks to the exceptional mobilization of the police“.
Presenting the government asthe bulwark against illegitimate and dangerous violence“, the minister called for “unreservedly condemn the violence», and denounced «the plan to undermine our institutions” and of “weakening of the Republicundertaken by some. He particularly targets the violent clashes observed the previous Saturday in Sainte-Soline – proof according to him that “the violent do not need the pension reform to be violent“.