In the preparation of the reform, the choices made did not bear the expected fruits. On the eve of the parliamentary phase, the Prime Minister is under pressure and will speak on France 2, Thursday.
by Claire Gatinois and Ivanne Trippenbach
Under the crystal chandeliers of the village hall of the Elysée, Emmanuel Macron opens his arms wide. “Ah, the best retirement defender!” He said to the former Prime Minister, Jean-Pierre Raffarin, on the sidelines of the Asian lunar New Year ceremony. This Friday, January 27, the Head of State sees in the 74 -year -old Chiraquian the living proof that one can, from Matignon, reform pensions while preserving the President of the Republic of splashes of unpopularity. Didn’t Fillon reform twenty years ago throw over a million people on the street?
The current Prime Minister is absent, busy on his side of the Seine, left bank. The Head of State does not say of Elisabeth Borne that she is the best pension ambassador. But “when she says something, she says it with good reasons,” he will support her on January 30, from the Netherlands.
The next day, mobilization, more massive than the first demonstrations against the reform project almost two weeks ago, has the effect of a scathing disavowal at the address of Elisabeth Borne. Around 4:30 p.m., from the benches of the National Assembly where she answers questions to the government, the tenant of Matignon worries with SMS with her cabinet: “If we finish at 1.2 [million demonstrators] Or is not a drama? Are we a risk of being above? “She questions. The figure falls a few hours later: 1.27 million French people, according to the Ministry of the Interior. Its strategy intended to land, gently, this burning file, takes the appearance of a quagmire.
The head of government received the mission from the Head of State, as early as June 2022, to “build a path” to win “majorities of ideas” in the National Assembly. Elisabeth Borne now fears to see the majority escape him on this unpopular text. To the point that in Matignon, we find it good to specify that the door of an appeal to 49.3 remains closed in double turn. Such a way, which would be unprecedented in France to reform pensions, would sign the failure of the Borne method. “It is No Way,” warned the Prime Minister, on the eve of the mobilization of 31, to majority deputies.
lr raises the auctions
But the situation presents itself worse than expected with the Les Républicains Party (LR). The former Minister of Labor demanded to see urgently the president of the movement, Eric Ciotti, and the leader of LR deputies, Olivier Marleix, Wednesday morning, to gauge the position of the right. Indispensable to the vote, it increases the auctions on the use of seniors and on long careers. The services of Matignon always cast to correct the imbalances of the reform to the detriment of women or young people, but they refer the future adjustments to the parliamentary debate.
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