REFORME Elisabeth Borne is due to present her reform project on Thursday
Yael Braun-Pivet, November 29, 2023 at the Assembly. — STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN
Hot file in sight. The President of the National Assembly Yaël Braun-Pivet assured Sunday that “the game is not done” over a legal age from retirement to 65 years old, while Elisabeth Borne is due to present her reform project on Thursday and Parliament will seize it in early 2023.
65 years old, as announced by Emmanuel Macron, or 64? “It could, I think, move if the Assembly wants to go in that direction;” and that the government is ready for it,” the deputy Renaissance to; France Inter-franceinfo-Le Monde. ““I am all about made open to “moves” as long as the objectives of the reform can be achieved, i.e. financial balance and social justice,” she added.
The postponement to; 65 years old is however the privileged track of the government
Emmanuel Macron had defended during the presidential campaign a postponement of the legal age from 62 to 62 years old. 65 years old, before d & rsquo; 64 years old couple to an increase in the contribution period. The postponement to; 65 is now the preferred track, according to Majority officials. who participated Wednesday evening at; a dinner at; the Elysée. Yaël Braun-Pivet did not participate. because she was celebrating her birthday with her family.
“ We campaigned for weeks around It’s 65, so it wouldn’t be surprising if we entered the fray with an age of 65,” agreed government spokesman Olivier Véran, Sunday with RTL-Le Figaro-LCI. But “we are in permanent consultation,” he said.
Will 49.3 be used?
The Prime Minister is due to receive the bosses of the parliamentary groups until the middle of next week, before presenting the outlines of the reform project on Thursday, a date confirmed by Olivier Véran. If no majority does not emerge at the beginning of 2023 at the National Assembly in favor of the reform, the government will always be able to resort to the constitutional weapon of 49.3 to pass it without a vote.
Yaël Braun-Pivet said she was “convinced that there is a way, but the way is not found to ahead” to avoid this recourse to 49.3 and achieve “consensual reform”: “it’s up to çhas served consultation and parliamentary debate”. “The National Assembly is at the even to be the place par excellence of democratic debate,” appease the social climate,” she wants to believe.
The general secretaries of the CFDT and the CGT, Laurent Berger and Philippe Martinez, have already promised “determined”social mobilization in case of postponement of the starting age.