In an 11ᵉ arrondissement where he was elected deputy on the wire, the Minister for Transport sought to convince, Friday, January 27, of the merits of the executive project.
by Claire Gatinois
It was a little more than 9:30 a.m. on Friday, January 27, when Clément Beaune came out of line 5 of the Paris metro. In the humid and gray cold of 11 e arrondissement of Paris, the Minister Delegate in charge of Transport narrowly avoided the height of the rush hour. But other bad humor demonstrations awaited the former Sherpa of Emmanuel Macron. Bold, the one who was elected, on the wire, deputy of the 7th district of Paris, in June 2022, comes to probe, with a handful of activists, the quidams on the most electric subject of the moment: the pension reform.
After the massive mobilization of Thursday, January 19, new strikes and demonstrations are expected on Tuesday January 31. In transport, “it will be strong”, predicts the minister, who, like a good soldier of “Macronie”, leaves at the front to defend the action of the government. At the Popincourt market, here it is which courageously tends a prospectus where “balance”, “justice” and the “progress” of the text of the law is praised, which plans to retreat the retirement age at 64 years old in 2030.
“Too early to talk about this”, politely smiles a hurry in a hurry, while the gray heads sweep the invitation of a formula launched as a relief: “Already retired! It no longer concerns me!” The ‘Home is at best indifferent. At worse, freezing. Talk about pensions? “And then what is still?”, Send a lady dry when the minister approaches him, before slipping a “Who is it?”. Another pass without even looking up, dragging his cart to a stall of cold meats.
“It must be complicated for you at the moment”
An elegant woman, a faux fur coat on her back, agrees to take the small paper and even take a look. “” Justice “, she reads. We don’t care about our face?” Clément Beaune cashes, argues the merits of the reform, who, he explains, must save the system and will allow many current retirees to earn more thanks to the revaluation of minimum pensions at 1,200 euros. Nothing helps.
The lady with false fur complains of the public services that disappear and the “49.3”, this article in the Constitution which makes it possible to have a text adopted without a vote, and which the government used ten times at the end of Year 2022. “It must be complicated for you right now”, sympathizes an elegant blonde retiree.
“We know each other?” Lames a passer -by in stride, refusing the prospectus, before an old gentleman, Gavroche hat screwed on the skull, suggests that he is not against this reform. “There is still something that bothers me,” he confesses, tightening the paper against him. For fifteen years, he was craftsman. Result: “150 euros of pension. It brings me a little bit.” Clément Beaune cautiously evokes the 1,200 euros of minimum retirement. “Maybe you are entitled to it?” He questions.
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