The Prime Minister acknowledged that the text first aimed at “balance”, and then “the distribution of effort”. She asserted was ready to “go further” to impose the use of seniors in businesses.
by Claire Gatinois
As if to rectify a misunderstanding, Elisabeth Borne announced the entry color, Thursday, February 2, on the set of the program “L’Evénement”, on France 2 : the pension reform” C ‘is a collective effort, “admitted the Prime Minister.
After two days of massive mobilization against the executive project which plans to retreat the retirement age from 62 to 64 to 64, the Matignon tenant played the card of sincerity. Reform pensions, “it’s not simple (…) but it’s essential,” she explained. The one that the communist leader Fabien Roussel had confused in a slip, a few days earlier on BFM-TV, with the former British Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, the “iron lady”, now assumes the share of harshness of his project.
The “justice” and “progress” of the system, praised during the initial presentation of the reform, on January 10, had aroused criticism and outraged denials on the part of unions and oppositions, which had been eager to highlight the examples of workers penalized by the reform. “So, ultimately, is this reform fair?”, Was surveyed the presenter Caroline Roux. “I first said that this reform was aimed at balance. Then we are attentive to the distribution of effort. (…) We cannot ask everyone the same,” said the head of the government.
Elisabeth Borne wanted to make herself an apostle of a “truth” which required to explain, with great reinforcement of figures and graphics, that this reform rejected by a majority of French people aimed above all to save the system of Pensions. “We have a social model which we must ensure the future,” she said, assuring that nothing would lead the country to its loss, impoverishing retirees, increasing taxes or “breaking the dynamics of job creation “. And those who suggest the opposite do not say “all the truth,” she accused, targeting Pierre-Louis Bras, boss of the pension orientation council, who has repeatedly affirmed that retirement expenses ” did not slip “. “The balance of a system is expenses and revenues,” she said.
appease “reluctance, worries and questions”
This is for the observation that the government has been trying to draw up for several weeks already. It remained to appease “reluctance, concerns and questions”, which the Prime Minister says she “heard”. A few days before the opening of the debates in the Assembly, the government’s chef asserts himself “listening” to tear a compromise by avoiding, she hopes, the parliamentary obstruction programmed by rebellious France. The hypothesis of a 49.3, article of the Constitution making it possible to adopt a text without a vote, is not “envisaged”, she assures. But the ways of passage seem narrow.
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