The government is studying all avenues to pass the pension reform, including within the framework of the Scu budget bill for 2023, its spokesman Olivier Vran said on Wednesday.
The operational modalities, starting with the legislative modalities, are not known to date but all avenues are being studied, including the avenue that would lead us to propose a reform through the social security financing bill (PLFSS), declared the government spokesman after the Council of Ministers. This eventuality would not exclude that there is a broad consultation of the whole of civil society and the social partners, he assured.
Terminal: the modalities are not sliced
In the entourage of Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne, it is said that the modalities (to pass the reform, Editor’s note) are not sliced. President Emmanuel Macron recently argued that pension reform could not wait any longer and should come into force summer 2023.
Olivier Vran indicated that there was time left for consultation before the presentation of the budgetary texts which will only take place on September 26 during the Council of Ministers. He reaffirmed the government’s desire to work with the opposition and the majority upstream, to co-construct what can be, without denying the major fundamental principles that underlie the mandate of the President of the Republic, that is is to say no tax increases and no increase in debt.
Many members of the majority are already convinced that it will be necessary to go through article 49-3 of the Constitution to have the budget adopted, for lack of an absolute majority in the Assembly.
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This article, which allows a text to be adopted without a vote, except adoption of a motion of censure, has been used dozens and dozens of times, under right or left regimes and therefore we are not in a fact historical, underlined Olivier Vran, reaffirming the hope that opposition parliamentarians will be able to vote or abstain on the draft budget.
LFI, LR and RN have already warned that they will not vote in favor of it and, following a meeting on Tuesday at Bercy with representatives of parliamentarians, most of the oppositions judged that the government did not have the intention to consider their proposals.
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