If it prevents a republican pact from being concluded after the health crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic, "the pension reform will have to be put aside", estimates Gilles Le Gendre, the president of the group La République marching in the Assembly, in an interview in the Sunday Journal . For the number one of the deputies of the majority, the post-health crisis "will not be 'before'. But it will not be the 'Big Evening'".
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He believes that this "after" "could be part of a new republican pact", which "would be based on three pillars: the recovery of the economy, new solidarities and protections, and the ecological transition". "The urgency he judges, it will be the repair, but it will be accompanied by a radical refoundation: we will have to review our political balances to bring together the French; and also change our way of associating the latter with the public action".
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Seek "the broadest possible consensus"
To build the Republican Pact, he said, it will be necessary to seek "the broadest consensus with political forces, local elected representatives, unions, associations and citizens. In the National Assembly, our majority will have to prevail over compromise rather than confrontation. "
The president of the LREM group judges that "the pension reform has shown how exhausted our social democracy is". "Between two useful reforms, you will always have to choose the one that brings the French together. If it prevents the republican pact from being concluded, the pension reform will have to be put aside," he said.