Olivier Véran, government spokesman. CHRISTOPHE ARCHAMBAULT / AFP
“We are going to give ourselves the means so that the account is good” declared the spokesman of the government, on the eve of a new day of mobilization.
“We will hold the goal“of a financially balanced pension system in 2030, assured Monday the spokesman of the government Olivier Véran, on the eve of a new day of mobilization against the project of reform of the executive. “We want the account to be good by 2030 and we are going to give ourselves the means to make the account good“, explained on France 2 the minister, questioned on the cost of the concessions granted by the government so that the law is adopted with the support of the Republicans.
“We are in discussion with the senators“, who are currently examining the project, so that the measures which financially burden the reform are compensated by others, he specified. The spokesperson also assured that the government “stay tunedof the country andcontinues to be in dialogue with unions, even when they do not agree with us“. The unions intend to mobilize on Tuesday, the sixth day of action, even more than on January 31, when the police had identified 1.27 million participants and the inter-union more than 2.5 million.
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Mocked on social media for estimating on Wednesday that “put France on hold“from March 7, would be”take the risk of an ecological, agricultural or health disaster“, the minister acknowledged that his “message obviously went wrong“. “Maybe I should have worded it differently.“, he conceded.
He nevertheless insisted on the difference between “challenge“reform and”block the country“: according to him, “the history of the social movement in France has shown that it was not necessary to block an entire country and cause such major inconvenience for the French people on a daily basis“. Very strong disruptions are planned in particular in urban and rail transport, all the unions having called for a renewable strike at the RATP and the SNCF, from Tuesday.
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