"There are reforms that are looming, I personally consider them necessary, even if some will provoke social mobilizations and passionate debates", he developed in the presence of Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne, citing the pension reform.
"We will have to escape the postures, the blockages, to respond to the many concerns and questions of our fellow citizens", declared Mr. Larcher, recalling that the reform envisaged by the government is "not very far from what proposes with constancy and in a spirit of dialogue the senatorial majority for 4 years".
"No, Parliament is not a ZAD! It can sometimes be a place of passionate debate but it must also be a place of discernment and reason", he also underlined.
The President of the Senate called on the government to initiate structural reforms "without delay", referring to "the control of our public expenditure, the school", or the health system, "which is undoubtedly one of the first concerns of our fellow citizens and our elected officials".
He also called for a "great law of decentralization and local freedoms".
"It's not just a text of new distribution of powers, reorganization of the state (...) that we need, it's more than that!", Declared Mr. Larcher.
"It's a new architecture of responsibility and decision that I call for: it's called freedom, it breaks with verticality," he continued.
Mr. Larcher specified that the working group on decentralization and local freedoms installed last October in the Senate will publish its conclusions "in the spring".
"It seems that the reform of our institutions is again on the agenda during this five-year term. We are ready for it," said the President of the Senate, indicating that a transpartisan working group has been created in Senate.
"Pay attention to the fair representation of the territories and to the respect of our constitutional balances", he warned.
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