Alexandre Chauveau, edited by Laura Laplaud 07:02, February 28, 2023

The pension reform arrives this Tuesday in the Social Affairs Committee in the Senate.

The upper house has until March 12 to consider the text.

After the failure of the discussions in the Assembly, the government is counting on the senators to give parliamentary legitimacy to the reform. 

Do not replay the chaos of the National Assembly, promise the senators who are looking into pension reform this Tuesday.

The text arrives in the Social Affairs Committee before Thursday's plenary session.

An institution chaired by Gérard Larcher, member of the Republicans, party with the majority in the Senate.

Emmanuel Macron will therefore have to negotiate with the boss of the Senate.

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Relations are heating up between the two men

The President of the Senate has taken on a completely different importance since the relative majority in the Assembly.

The upper house, mostly on the right, now represents a major interlocutor, if not privileged for the executive.

For example, the government presented there before the Assembly its text on renewable energies and should do the same with the immigration bill.

A marked attention which illustrates the warming of the relationship between Emmanuel Macron and Gérard Larcher.

The two men with distant personalities now see each other every two months.

A tete-a-tete whose President of the Senate did not have the honors during the previous five-year term.

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It must be said that the second character of the State holds several keys that Emmanuel Macron lacked.

Impossible to pass a text without his majority in the Senate, nor to envisage without him the reform of the institutions on which the Head of State is working.

Gérard Larcher counts and Emmanuel Macron knows it.

Especially since the President of the Senate should be re-elected to his post in September.

His mandate could then run until 2029. A symbol when that of the Elysée tenant will end in 2027.