Pensions: Emmanuel Macron wants the reform "to go to the end of its democratic journey"

Europe 1 with AFP 21:28 p.m., March 19, 2023, modified at 21:36 p.m., March 19, 2023

President Emmanuel Macron expressed the wish Sunday that the pension reform, which will be definitively adopted on Monday if the two motions of censure targeting the government of Elisabeth Borne are rejected, "can go to the end of its democratic journey". "After months of political and social consultations and more than 170 hours of debate that culminated in the vote on a compromise text between the Senate and the National Assembly, the President of the Republic expressed to the two presidents (of the Senate and the Assembly, editor's note) his wish that the text on pensions can go to the end of its democratic journey with respect for all," said the Elysee in a message sent to AFP.

"Protecting" MPs under threat

The head of state also assured Sunday evening of "the mobilization of the government so that everything is implemented" to "protect" parliamentarians threatened by opponents of the pension reform. The President of the Republic called on the President of the Senate Gérard Larcher and the President of the National Assembly Yaël Braun-Pivet to "reaffirm his support for Parliament and all its parliamentarians as well as the mobilization of the government so that everything is done to protect them," said the Elysee.

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