Alexandre Chauveau 06h55, 02 April 2023

This Saturday, the Greens declined Elisabeth Borne's proposal for a meeting to discuss the pension reform. Marine Tondelier's party still wants to exchange with the Prime Minister to discuss policing issues. The meeting will take place on Tuesday noon, but is a reconciliation still possible?

The coming week is already off to a bad start for Elisabeth Borne. After La France insoumise and the communists, the Greens in turn declined the Prime Minister's proposal for a meeting to discuss the pension reform. "The country is not ready for it and neither are we," the ecologists said. A reconciliation mission that promises to be complicated at Matignon.

"How to appease when the government has used 49.3?"

Because even if the National Rally where The Republicans responded favorably to the request of the Prime Minister, this is the third refusal suffered by Elisabeth Borne. In a statement published on Saturday, the Greens questioned the executive's attempt at conciliation. "How to appease when the government has used the 49.3?", write the ecologists, who add "appeasement is not decreed, it is built".

The Prime Minister proposed talks to the political forces.

The Ecologists will not participate in the meeting to help him "turn the page". EELV nevertheless wishes to speak urgently with her to get out of the spiral of violence.

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— EELV (@EELV) April 1, 2023

The Greens also criticise the policing policy, which they say has tightened in recent weeks. They denounce a "disproportionate use of force", especially in Sainte Soline last weekend. The communiqué concludes with a request for an appointment, not to discuss pensions, but precisely to talk about these policing issues.

Willingness to dialogue, except on pensions

The request was accepted by Matignon and the meeting will take place on Tuesday noon. Proof that if the executive is inflexible on the pension reform, it still tries to seize the slightest opportunity to show its willingness for dialogue. It is under this auspice that Elisabeth Borne will approach the coming week. Culminating in the meeting with the unions on Wednesday in Matignon.

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Elisabeth Borne also still has to face street protest. Several thousand people demonstrated against the pension reform this Saturday in Vire, Calvados, where the Prime Minister had been elected MP.