Elisabeth Borne opposes Bruno Le Maire on the pension reform

Elisabeth Borne and Bruno Le Maire -

We thought the end of 2020 was already sluggish enough like that, and here is the resurgence of the debate around pension reform.

In an interview with Parisien this Saturday, Bruno Le Maire, Minister of the Economy, announced that he had "the strong conviction" that the pension reform should be "the top priority" of 2021, and by making one of the elements essential for the repayment of the debt of the coronavirus, with "the return of growth" and "the control of our operating expenses".

Words that did not fail to react.

Starting with the unions, contacted by our colleagues from Le

that same Saturday.

“Let’s get out of the crisis first of all,” the CFDT negotiator, Frédéric Sève, gave a firm response.

The idea of ​​saving on pensions is misplaced.

"Yves Veyrier, leader of Force Ouvrière resumed the same tone:" If this issue comes back to the table, it will give rise to a social conflict.

The urgency is to get back to work.

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Social reform or economic reform?

But even within the government, the exit of Bruno Le Maire was not to everyone's taste.

Labor Minister Elisabeth Borne clearly opposed the idea that this reform should be the top priority on Sunday.

"The absolute priority is to get out of the economic and social health crisis, to protect jobs, this is the unanimous opinion of the social partners", she replied, questioned during the program "Dimanche en policy ”on France 3 on the statements of his colleague.

“It is a reform of social justice, which aims to establish a more equitable universal system.

It is on this subject that I will seek to resume consultations with the social partners ”, she said, recalling, for the benefit of her colleague, that this social agenda“ had been enacted around the Prime Minister ”.

Dialogue above all

"We must find a way to resume discussions with the social partners," she said, without giving any indication of the timetable, which is increasingly tight before the presidential election.

The reform "can only be done in consultation with the social partners", she insisted, and within the framework of "a peaceful parliamentary debate", that is to say "not with 49.3" , as was done at first reading in the Assembly before the outbreak of the health crisis.

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