Emmanuel Macron’s long journey on pension reform

After several weeks of hesitation on the method to follow, the Elysée is now considering a “third way” to implement one of the major five -year sites.

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This time, it’s the right one. Finally, maybe. The dinner organized at the Elysée, Wednesday, September 28, between Emmanuel Macron, his Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne, the patron of the modem, François Bayrou, that of Horizons, Edouard Philippe, and the leaders of the parliamentary groups of the majority should allow the debate to be entered on the method of implementing pension reform. Whether it is carried out “at the Hussarde”, as the unions denounce, via an amendment to the bill of social security financing (PLFSS), or in a less precipitated way, it “will be”, he insists We at the Elysée. With the will of M. Macron that she came into force in the summer of 2023.

it remains to be seen how. If the idea of ​​a dedicated bill, presented in early 2023, had a stammering feared, a “third way” is now envisaged by the executive: that of a supply bill at the PLFSS, presented by months of January 2023. The implementation of the reform would only be a question of months, even weeks. “The Head of State said it to the French during the presidential campaign, he was elected to do so. Now, everyone has to take responsibility. Waiting has no virtue,” blows an advisor to the president of The Republic.

Impatience has become palpable at the Elysée. As with part of the majority of the majority, where the subject ends up tired, by dint of stretching. “It’s like parachute jump, at one point you have to get started. Most of the time, it goes well,” sighs Eric Woerth, elected Renaissance (ex-Republic En Marche) of the Oise, who has Led with a pension reform in 2010, when he was Minister of Nicolas Sarkozy.

It has been more than two years since the subject of pensions floats in the atmosphere, weighing on the popularity of the Head of State without anything having, yet, materialized. The reform, which appeared in the presidential program of candidate Macron in 2017, was however on the verge of completing in March 2020, before being stopped clear by the emergence of the COVVI-19. Decreeing the country “at war”, against the coronavirus, Emmanuel Macron then decides to suspend any reform, “starting” with that “of pensions”.

of the months of suspense

A year and a half later, in July 2021, after a life struck by confinements and certificates, the Head of State promises to relaunch the aborted reform. With the concern of keeping its reforming DNA and sewing the thread of its five -year term. But the tempo remains vague. The project must be started, “as soon as the health conditions are met,” said Emmanuel Macron.

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