"Emmanuel Macron is in the process of completely devitalizing our social system and ensuring that it is so fragile that we are forced to go through the private sector, private pensions, private hospital, private school , and it's no longer France", denounced on Franceinfo the ecofeminist.

"From law to law, we are reducing employer contributions, so we are creating tension on the pension system which means that we can no longer finance it and then we say: look, it is in deficit, we will have to modify", she explained, calling for "paying the employer's contributions".

MP EELV also criticized the method because, according to her, "the government which decides everything is another weakening of the unions and the social partners" and "it is once again Emmanuel Macron's contempt for everything that makes France strong".

"A reform as important as pensions (...), it is absolutely impossible for it to pass in 49.3 in the light of an article slipped into another law, it is not possible, we must debate democratically", has she added.

"The president seems to be sailing on sight, and to be able to deceive, he is adorning himself with the will of a reformer, it's not serious. If it's an important reform, let's discuss it, and not at the bend of an amendment to the PLFSS (Project of law on the financing of social security Editor's note), abounded the national secretary of EELV Julien Bayou on Radio J.

The government is studying "all avenues" to pass the pension reform, including "as part of the social security budget bill" for 2023, its spokesman Olivier Véran said on Wednesday.

"The terms are not fixed, as long as they are not stopped, we do not exclude any hypothesis", confirmed on France 2 the Minister of Labor Olivier Dussopt.

“In the coming days, including from Monday, on the basis of the report of the COR (pension orientation council), we will have this discussion and this consultation with the trade unions”, he added.

"The reform must be carried out, and quickly, and in the most efficient way. It must be done so that the commitment of the President of the Republic is kept. That is to say an application in 2023", explained the minister.

President Emmanuel Macron recently claimed that the pension reform could not wait any longer and should come into force in the summer of 2023.

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