INTERVIEW
While the text of the pension reform will be examined in plenary by the National Assembly on February 17, the unions were received in Matignon to "take stock" of the pension reform. A meeting which ended with a disappointment of the unions, in the absence of progress on the subject of arduousness. The opposition parliamentarians intend to disrupt the debates, new days of demonstration are planned for February 17 and 20. Against all odds, the government will have to defend its controversial reform.
Laurent Pietraszewski, Secretary of State to the Minister of Health and Solidarity, in charge of pensions, reacts on Europe 1. "We have a clear commitment, we will adopt the project before the summer." The buildings of the National Assembly will indeed be under construction during the summer preventing the holding of parliamentary sessions.
The Secretary of State returns to the referendum, requested by certain elected officials, notably Marine Le Pen. "The referendum is irrelevant because our will is to debate. I have just spent 75 hours in a special committee where we discussed. The will is to complete and enrich the text." Our subject is not not 49.3, but the substantive debate, "he added." There will be no 49.3, there is room for debate. "
"This text will rebuild solidarity between the generations, will make living together in our Republic a beautiful project project. This text must be able to discuss it on the merits. All oppositions do not behave in the same way, one group in particular seeks to delete word by word, paragraph by paragraph, "said the Secretary of State, referring to the assumed obstruction of rebellious France, which has tabled several thousand amendments. "We have to rise to the challenge."
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Citizen mobilization continues, profession by profession. Faced with accusations of amateurism and lack of preparation, Laurent Pietraszewski defends himself. "We are very prepared. The question is that we are touching on a subject which concerns the whole of society. When we talk about retirement, we are talking about the remuneration of candidates, the employment of seniors, the way in which we manages the second part of their career. Jean-Paul Delevoye's team has succeeded in building in almost two years the structures of a universal retirement system which completely revisits a system which dates back more than 75 years. debates on transitions ".
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