The Macronist deputies show their relief after the validation of the essentials of the pension reform. With one objective: to quickly turn the page after very difficult months politically.
After very difficult weeks, the presidential majority is smiling again. The decision of the Constitutional Council which censored certain points of the reform but validated the decline in the starting age to 64, the Renaissance deputies do not spoil their pleasure.
“We are obviously relieved. We will now be able to go on more positive, less crystallizing things”, advances to BFMTV.com the deputy Louis Margueritte.
“A respectful democratic process”
It must be said that after more than 3 months of contestation, a chaotic legislative process and a government at a standstill, the news has enough to reduce the pressure. Only the “social measures” of the reform such as the senior index and the experimentation of the senior CDI have been challenged. Emmanuel Macron now wants to go very quickly and enact the law this weekend.
The Sages have certainly recognized the “unusual nature” of the accumulation of procedures chosen by the government to restrict the debates – from the maximum 50 days of debate at 49.3 to the National Assembly in second reading through the blocked vote in the Senate . But they did not consider that this choice “disregarded” the “constitutional requirements”.
MP Marc Ferraci, an intimate of the president, is “welcomed” by this news, hailing “a democratic process respectful of our institutions”.
“Continue to reform”
It is therefore time for hope to definitively turn the page despite the threat of a possible validation of the shared initiative referendum. If the first version was rejected this Friday evening by the members of the Constitutional Council, the senators on the left are betting a lot on a second version, better tied up legally.
“If when we have to make a difficult reform, we must each time go through a referendum, France will be the 20th world power in a few years. We must continue to reform”, advances François Patriat, the boss of the Macronist senators.
The presidential majority now wants to focus on new topics, starting with increasing the purchasing power of employees.
“To express a disagreement is always to show dialogue”
But to do this, we must relaunch discussions with the unions. But the centrals firmly refused the proposal for a meeting “in a spirit of harmony” launched by Emmanuel Macron. Not enough to dampen the enthusiasm of elected Renaissance officials.
“It is not because a meeting is not honored that there will not be others. To express a disagreement is always to show dialogue”, wants to believe Prisca Thévenot, the door -speech of the Renaissance group in the Assembly.
The unions, they are not disarming and are heading for May 1st, still hoping to make the government give in.
