Elisabeth Borne made her political comeback this Tuesday morning, January 3. After an interview on France Info this morning, she receives the social partners in the afternoon and tomorrow for a final round of interviews before the presentation of the pension reform, announced for January 10.
Elisabeth Borne is maneuvering on pensions … She had asked Emmanuel Macron for more time to negotiate with unions. He only has a few days left before the big jump. The Prime Minister, described by the majority as ” a real negotiator, who knows how », seeks convergences with the social partners, whom she meets in turn.
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From the outset this Tuesday morning, several unions reaffirmed their refusal to raise the retirement age, before being received at Matignon for the final consultations in the afternoon. A reform ” very unfair “, according to François Hommeril of the CFE-CGC, who will ” create a lot of social conflict “, warned the secretary general of the CFDT, Laurent Berger, repeating that “ the age measurement is a red line “. Same determination with Frédéric Souillot, his FO counterpart, who will be received at the end of the afternoon: “SIf we are told to set back the retirement age or extend the contribution period, it will get stuck (…) There will be mobilization and strong mobilization “.
Emmanuel Macron’s campaign promise, the postponement of the legal retirement age to 65 is not a totem “Assured this morning Elisabeth Borne on France info. ” There are other solutions that can also make it possible to achieve the balance of our pension system by 2030. On all these subjects, we continue to discuss “, said Elisabeth Borne, who on the other hand ruled out going beyond the 43 years of contribution provided for to have a full pension and affirmed that the age of cancellation of the discount, set at 67, ” won’t move “. Statements strongly criticized on the left on Tuesday.
Attempt to smoke out: leaving at 65 “is not a totem” according to Elisabeth Borne. To better swallow a departure at 64/63 years old with the support of the LRs? They had made the same diversion in 2019 by removing the pivot age.
For us and the majority of French people, it’s NO ?
— Clementine Autain (@Clem_Autain) January 3, 2023
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The pension reform, the presentation of which was initially announced in December, will be publicly unveiled on January 10 before being submitted to ministers on the 23rd and then examined in the National Assembly in early February for entry into force before “ the end of this summer “, insisted the Prime Minister on France info.
There will be no ” new thing coming out of these meetings, according to a Renaissance parliamentarian, for whom Elisabeth Borne plays above all the “ scenography of the reform. She wants to be able to arrive next week explaining that she has gone to the end of the negotiation, that the government has not come into force, analyzes Valerie Gas, from the political service of RFI. And by emphasizing the positive advances: long careers, hardship, employment of seniors, minimum retirement… the “honey” of the reform.
On the political side, a meeting is also planned with Eric Ciotti, the new president of the Republicans. In the presidential majority, we want to believe that he will have no interest in bringing about the blockageand that failing to vote for the text, the LR deputies will abstain.
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