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Prime Minister Édouard Philippe Matignon during a meeting with unions on pension reform on November 26, 2019. Bertrand Guay / Pool via REUTERS

One week from the dreaded strike day of December 5, the text of the pension reform has still not been unveiled. Anxious to be attentive, the executive multiplies initiatives by organizing final consultations with the unions and a meeting Tuesday evening between the Prime Minister and the majority.

" In two years, there have already been multiple consultations so all this is smoking, " says Bruno Retailleau who will not demonstrate on December 5. Senator LR nevertheless shares Sébastien Jumel's annoyance that " we do not play games with pensions ".

For the Communist MP, it is time to decide and say exactly to the French what is going to be a reform that was divided within the government. " You understand something between Delevoye, Édouard Philippe, Macron, the clause of the grandfather, the clause of the grandmother ... It is the complete artistic vagueness ", enrays Sébastien Jumel.

Whether on the date of entry into force of the reform, the withholding or not of the measure of age, the requests for clarification are unanimous, even if on the left, there is not much illusion on the effects of text.

"The truth is we do not know anything"

" Is it minimum old age or is it a minimum pension? What will be the value of the point in time? Will it really be a registered euro that will create a euro of right? The truth is that we do not know anything, "denounced the Socialist deputy Boris Vallaud.

Same questions on the other side of the hemicycle. MP RN Sebastien Chenu even plans to march on December 5 against a government that maintains the vagueness, according to him on purpose. " No one understands anything because the government refuses to assume the reality of what it is simmering ."

Faced with political pressure, the Prime Minister could take the floor to give first arbitration Wednesday, November 27.