"We form a united majority. And we will only succeed if our three parliamentary groups unite", declared the Prime Minister before the parliamentarians of the MoDem and the president of the party, François Bayrou, gathered in Guidel (Morbihan).
Ms. Borne just reiterated that she wanted to "act for (the) pension system", while Mr. Bayrou warned against the "forceful passage" that a reform would constitute in his view via an amendment to the bill for the financing of Social Security, a track mentioned by Emmanuel Macron and seriously studied by the government.
"Our majority is strong because it is rich in three groups, three sensitivities (Renaissance, the MoDem and Horizons, editor's note). We must hear them all, listen to them. We must act in confidence, say everything between us, use the many spaces for dialogue that we have built before being able to speak with one voice, by being united in our collective decisions", also declared Ms. Borne.
"That does not mean that we would all agree on everything, that our differences would not be legitimate. That is not at all my conviction. My conviction is that in the period we are going through, we must be demanding of ourselves on our method of dialogue so as not to lend ourselves to attacks from all those who want to make our differences in culture or approach, insurmountable obstacles to our collective action", she developed .
"We do not dialogue with fixed ideas and tied up projects. We must hear each other's arguments. Accept serene debates, debates of ideas. And if necessary, modify, amend", insisted the First minister.
In front of the press, the president of the MoDem François Bayrou welcomed the "openings", "between the lines", of the Prime Minister, after having pleaded in front of his activists for the majority to be "capable of debating together the most burning problems" .
Pensions, "it's a reform of society. It cannot be settled by parliamentary artifice", "an unexpected, surreptitious reform".
"I don't think it can be done" by an amendment to the PLFSS, insisted the mayor of Pau.
The leader of the MoDem deputies, Jean-Paul Mattei, praised the "ability to listen" of the head of government.
“It is not because on one subject or another we have differences of sensitivities that we are not going to support you”, insisted the deputy of Pyrénées-Atlantiques.
Deprived of an absolute majority in the Assembly, Elisabeth Borne also predicted a parliamentary session which will be "not easy" and joked about the setbacks of LFI about violence against women.
La France insoumise "wants to sow chaos everywhere, in Parliament and in the streets. But at the moment, it is first and foremost chaos at home".
She also castigated "the fundamentals" of the leader of the deputies RN Marine Le Pen, "simplism and excess".
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