The head of the French government Élisabeth Borne did not participate in the report of the Council of Ministers during which the pension reform was presented on Monday, January 23, leaving the Minister of Labor to go to the front. But the Prime Minister chose that day to present her wishes to the press and answer questions from journalists. An opportunity for Elisabeth Borne to participate in the after-sales service of the bill.
Neither microphone nor camera, but a direct dialogue: this is the exercise that Elisabeth Borne agreed to engage in in a living room at Matignon.
A Prime Minister equal to herself, without emphasis, but determined to respond to criticism. And first of all to that according to which the executive would have chosen to integrate the text of the pension reform in the amending budget of Social Security to limit the time of the debates and to escape a vote in the National Assembly.
” No way » : Élisabeth Borne affirms that she hopes that there will be a vote in the Assembly and in the Senate. To see what will happen in the end.
” Creativity »
On the other hand, concerning the proposal of the allies of the MoDem to increase the duration of the weekly working time to 35 and a half hours, Élisabeth Borne was firm: “ The government has no intention of opening the debate on the 35 hours “, noting with irony that there was ” creativity » in the majority and in the MoDem.
A small tackle which does not prevent the Prime Minister from displaying her confidence in having a “ united majority to carry out the reform. A majority that she will boost this Tuesday evening by presenting her wishes to parliamentarians.
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