France: final rounds on the much-discussed pension reform
Labor Minister Olivier Dussopt alongside Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne at the Élysée Palace on July 13, 2022. AFP - LUDOVIC MARIN
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Elisabeth Borne made her political comeback this Tuesday morning, January 3.
She receives today and tomorrow the social partners for a last round of interviews before the presentation of the pension reform, announced for January 10.
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Elisabeth Borne is maneuvering on pensions... She had asked Emmanuel Macron for more time to
negotiate with the unions
.
He only has a few days left before the big jump.
The Prime Minister, described by the majority as "
a real negotiator, who knows how to do
", seeks convergence with the social partners, whom she meets in turn.
► Negotiations that are
on the front page of the press review: "The return of all dangers for the government"
From the outset this Tuesday morning, several unions reaffirmed their refusal to raise the retirement age, before being received at Matignon for the final consultations.
A " very unfair
" reform
, according to François Hommeril of the CFE-CGC, which will "
create a lot of social conflict
", warned the secretary general of the CFDT, Laurent Berger, repeating that "
the age measurement, c is a red line
.
Same determination with Frédéric Souillot, his FO counterpart, who will be received at the end of the afternoon: “
If we are told to set back the starting age or extend the contribution period, it will get stuck (... ) There will be a mobilization and a strong mobilization
”.
Emmanuel Macron's campaign promise, the postponement of the legal retirement age to 65 "
is not a totem
", assured Elisabeth Borne this morning on France info.
“
There are other solutions which can also make it possible to achieve the balance of our pension system by 2030. On all these subjects, we continue to discuss
”, declared Elisabeth Borne, who on the other hand excluded to go beyond the 43 years of contribution provided for to have a full pension and affirmed that the age of cancellation of the discount, set at 67, "
will not change
".
The pension reform, the presentation of which was initially announced in December, will be publicly unveiled on January 10 before being submitted to ministers on the 23rd and then examined in the National Assembly at the beginning of February for entry into force before "
the end of this summer
, ”insisted the Prime Minister on France info.
There will be no “
new thing that will come out
” of these meetings, according to a Renaissance parliamentarian, for whom Elisabeth Borne plays above all the “
scenography
” of the reform.
She wants to be able to arrive next week by explaining that she has gone to the end of the negotiation, that the government has not gone into force, analyzes
Valérie Gas,
of the political service of RFI.
And by emphasizing the positive advances: long careers, hardship, employment of seniors, minimum retirement... the "honey" of the reform.
On the political side, a meeting is also planned with Eric Ciotti, the new president of the Republicans.
In the presidential majority, we want to believe that he
will have no interest in bringing about the blockage
, and that failing to vote for the text, the LR deputies will abstain.
►
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