Jacques Serais 2:02 p.m., September 26, 2022

While the Social Security financing bill is presented to the Council of Ministers on Monday, the question of pension reform is on everyone's mind.

The presidential majority is also divided on the subject, while the possibility of using 49.3 remains unresolved.

This is the trial by fire of Emmanuel Macron's second five-year term.

This Monday, the presentation of the Social Security financing bill in the Council of Ministers.

A project that promises to become explosive in the National Assembly if pension reform is integrated into it.

The executive has still not spoken, and continues to maintain the vagueness about its intentions … Ira, will not go?

"With the President of the Republic, we will decide by the end of the week", delays Élisabeth Borne.

It must be said that the presidential majority is fractured on the issue.

"We are looking for the best way"

On the one hand, Edouard Philippe, at the head of Horizons, pushes the executive to go quickly, regardless of the method.

On the other, François Bayrou, the boss of the MoDem, is trying to calm the presidential ardor.

"We are not in parts," he repeats.

Difficult decision for Elisabeth Borne, who is supposed to arbitrate whether this reform should materialize or not through an amendment to the Social Security financing bill.

“We are looking for the best way”, she advances to justify what is akin to procrastination.

The Prime Minister explains that she is for the search for a compromise and at the same time does not exclude recourse to article 49.3.

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"Everything is on the table", we are told here in the courtyard of the Élysée and, as a sign of this long hesitation, Emmanuel Macron will invite Elisabeth Borne, the ministers concerned and the various leaders of the majority to dine at the Palace Wednesday evening, on the eve of a day of mobilization and demonstration of the unions scheduled for Thursday throughout the country.

And this is perhaps the explanation of the suspense which reigns around this reform.

Way to see if the social storm will be weak or particularly strong.

Even if, in the entourage of the Head of State, it is assured that this data absolutely does not enter into the equation.