It is not a definitive "no".

Government spokesman Gabriel Attal said this Saturday to La Courneuve that "certain parts of the project" of pension reform could be implemented by the end of the five-year term, under certain "conditions".

While participating in a debate with the secretary general of the CGT, Philippe Martinez, at the Fête de l'Humanité, he was invited to confirm that the project “would not be implemented by the end of the five year term ".

"I am not confirming anything to you at all", he replied, even if the President of the Republic noted "that the project, given the time remaining by the end of the five-year term, could not be resumed as of 2019 ”.

The call for mobilization for October 1

“The first condition is long-term control of the epidemic. The second is the recovery of the economy, again over a confirmed period of time. The third one that is close to our hearts is the question of the unity of our country in this context, ”he explained. “Today (…) the conditions are not met. I cannot tell you that they will not be between now and the end of the five-year term, ”he concluded. Gabriel Attal and Philippe Martinez debated for an hour and a half. And the leader of the CGT concluded the debates by calling on everyone to demonstrate on October 1 for pensions and October 5 for the day of inter-union mobilization for wages and employment.

The Prime Minister, Jean Castex, had already evoked Wednesday "the imperative duty to promote as much as possible the unity of the country", in an allusion to the opposition of the unions and to the reluctance of the majority to implement the reform before the end of the five-year term.

The pension reform, "we will do that when we fall off the masks" because "there we have other priorities", for his part said President Emmanuel Macron during a trip to the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence.

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