The majority is torn apart in the National Assembly over the pension reform


Jacques Serais, edited by Juliette Moreau Alvarez
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8:48 a.m., September 21, 2022

The presidential majority is divided around the forceful passage of the pension reform. If Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne is reluctant to include the reform in the Social Security financing bill to use an amendment, the MoDem has clearly expressed its reluctance.

The government could well pass by force on the pension reform, by including it in the social security financing bill. Elisabeth Borne has not yet decided and the question agitates the majority. The presidential camp and its allies are divided on the fate of the reform, even to the point of tearing each other apart: illustration on Tuesday still in a group meeting at the National Assembly where the executive had to face the reluctance of certain deputies Renaissance.

The MoDem stands out from the majority

The Prime Minister, in favor of rapid reform, fails to convince some of her own troops. Above all, the historical ally of the walkers, the MoDem and its 49 deputies in the hemicycle, displayed the color. After François Bayrou, it was Jean-Paul Mattei, the president of the centrist group who went to the front. The position of the Democratic Movement deputies would be “certainly to vote against this amendment”, he insists. According to him, his group “will not be able to accept a reform, small or large, through an amendment”.

Difficult then for Elisabeth Borne to consider the possibility of including the reform in the Social Security financing bill. The Prime Minister will receive the leaders of parliamentary groups on Wednesday and Thursday. It should announce at the end of its meeting with the deputies and the senators what it envisages. But the dice seem cast, unless the executive wishes to go against the current of its own majority.



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