Europe 1 with AFP 20:23 p.m., March 26, 2023

This Sunday, in an interview with AFP, the Prime Minister wanted to "appease" with the unions by saying she was "at their disposal". The head of government has planned a slot to possibly receive trade unions and employers' organizations in the week of April 10.

Elisabeth Borne wished Sunday, in an interview with AFP, "to appease" with the unions by saying she was "available" to meet them on other sites than that of pensions, contested for ten weeks in the street. "I am also at the disposal of the social partners. We have to find the right way: are these bilateral meetings, an inter-union meeting? We need to bring appeasement. And that we can resume work on all these sites" of arduousness, professional retraining etc., said the Prime Minister.

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"No 49.3 outside the financial texts"

In this regard, the head of government has included in her agenda a slot to possibly receive trade unions and employers' organizations in the week of 10 April. On pensions, she recalls that the reform has been adopted and will "follow its course" to the Constitutional Council which will give an opinion, at the end of which the President of the Republic "must promulgate the law", as provided for in the Constitution.

While the use of 49.3 to adopt this reform has fueled protest, it wishes to no longer use it outside the financial texts. "The goal I set for the future is not 49.3 outside the financial texts," she said. "Since the beginning of the legislature, 11 bills have been definitively adopted and 12 bills. There was a recourse to 49.3 on only three texts" which are the budgetary texts for 2023, which includes the pension reform, carried by a amending law on the financing of Social Security, recalled the Prime Minister. Article 49.3 of the Constitution allows the adoption of a text without a vote but exposes the government to a motion of censure. Two motions were rejected on the text of pensions, one of them with nine votes.

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Parliamentary groups and political parties received the week of 3 April

Charged by Emmanuel Macron to build a government program and a legislative program, Elisabeth Borne specifies that she will "deploy" to do this an "action plan" over the next three weeks "which mobilizes all the actors who want to move (the) country forward". She will receive in the week of April 3 parliamentary groups and political parties, including those of the opposition, as well as representatives of communities, with the aim of "appeasing the country" and "dialogue with all actors on the method we want to put in place".

Next week, she will receive Monday the presidents of the majority of committees in Parliament, Tuesday the presidents of the Senate, Gérard Larcher, and the National Assembly, Yaël Braun-Pivet, then Wednesday the leaders of the majority parties, before meeting at the end of the week ministers and parliamentarians on education. The week of 3 April, she will also exchange with ministers and parliamentarians concerned with the themes of health and ecology. The quality of life at work and the employment of seniors will be discussed the week of April 10.

"We really want to prioritize a few topics to quickly show concrete results to the French," said Elisabeth Borne. On education, it intends, for example, to "keep the commitment from the beginning of the school year that each absence, including of short duration, is replaced". And on health, she wants "every patient with long-term illness to have access to a doctor".