Elisabeth Borne must meet the managers of the senatorial majority on Wednesday to review their convergences and red lines, before the opening of the debates in public session Thursday.
by Ivanne Trippenbach and Alexandre Pedro
Released from the tumult lived in the National Assembly, the government was almost impatient to see the pension reform project walking towards the Senate, reputed to be more weighted, from Tuesday, February 28. Until a cannon ball whistles very close to Matignon. Friday 24, during a heating lap with the group presidents of the Senate, Elisabeth Borne hangs up with Bruno Retailleau, the leader of the Senators Les Républicains (LR). Never before, in several months of negotiations, the Vendéen had suggested extinguishing the special regimes in 2025. Now he is about to agitate the hypothesis in the Parisian, aroused this unexpected opening of the Minister of Labor, Olivier Olivier Dussopt, Sunday on BFM-TV: “Why not.”
In the government, all of them have in mind that such provocation would give fuel to the social mobilization of March 7, when the unions announced to put the country to stop. And would risk, by ricochet, to “explode” the heart of the project on the legal starting age. In Matignon, one wonders even if the special regimes are not promised as the senatorial version of “long careers”, the endless negotiation subject imposed by the right of the Palais-Bourbon to Elisabeth Borne.
Tuesday at the end of the day, the relief dominated the government for a time. The Senate Social Affairs Committee approved the text, adding about fifteen amendments carried by the LR majority and its centrist allies. But – surprise – without accelerating the end of special diets. However, this should be debated in public session, based on an amendment to the LR group
Echaudé, the executive power thus contemplates the Palais du Luxembourg as a Roman Curia, where the future of its reform is nestled in the hands of a small handful of men – the president of the Senate Gérard Larcher, the chief of File LR Bruno Retailleau, his counterpart of the centrist union Hervé Marseille. At first glance, Matignon and the Senate share a common interest: debate the bottom of the text to the decree article 7, which postpones the legal age of departure from 62 to 64 years, contrary to what prevailed in the Assembly national.
“The basis of an agreement is on the table”
The hope of the majority is to deal with his law of anointing of the vote; That of the upper room, to pick the laurels of a successful parliamentary debate. “The deputies of rebellious France put the Senate as a majesty, they pass their turn and justify bicameralism,” savor Hervé Marseille earlier this week. “We consider that the base of an agreement is on the table,” said government spokesman Olivier Véran on Thursday, while at the Agricultural Show this weekend, Emmanuel Macron invited the Senate to “enrich the text”.
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