Once the “next day” has come, pension reform may not take place ... Before the next five-year term. This is the hypothesis formulated by the boss of the presidential movement, Stanislas Guerini, while questions are multiplying on how to carry out the mandate of Emmanuel Macron. In an interview with La Voix du Nord , the member for Paris reveals that it is " not certain " that we can carry out " pension reform by the end of the five-year term ".
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All reforms have been suspended since the start of the Covid-19 epidemic, " starting with pension reform ," Emmanuel Macron announced on March 16, along with confinement. A few sentences later, the head of state declared that " the day after will not be a return to the day before ", interpreted by some as a first sign of abandoning the pension reform.
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" We will not be able to resume the quinquennium where we left it, " warns Stanislas Guerini. To draw the contours of the world according to, “ it will be necessary to have the humility to rework the parliamentary calendar. »Even postpones the reform for a new term. " Perhaps it will be necessary to associate it with a transformation of the world of work and thus to propose it within the framework of a new presidential project ", suggests the number one of the "walkers" about this reform - promise of Emmanuel Macron's 2017 campaign - highly controversial. " There is no taboo in imagining it, " he concludes.
A finding shared in the majority
This little music has risen in recent weeks in the ranks of the majority and its supporters. " If it prevents the republican pact from being concluded, pension reform should be put aside, " announced on April 12 Gilles Le Gendre, the leader of deputies La République en Marche (LREM). LREM deputy for Val-d'Oise, Aurélien Taché, said that the " political situation has changed " and that " reform is no longer the subject ". François Bayrou, president of MoDem and close to Emmanuel Macron argued, him, that " the most controversial topics ", such as pension reform, are " dismissed for a moment ". " It is very important that we do not lay mines, subjects of confrontation on the table during this period, " he urged in the "Grand Jury RTL, Le Figaro , LCI", April 19.
Even the Prime Minister, Édouard Philippe, launched on April 3, on the set of TF1: "We must suspend disagreements as much as possible. The head of state asked for a national union. He announced the suspension of a number of reforms that are no longer in the current situation. " He who again affirmed on March 4 that the texts would be definitively adopted "before the summer" . After two years of gestation and a confrontational birth, there remained only the stages of the examination in the Senate and the possible consideration, of the recommendations made by the funding conference formed by the unions. The Covid-19 epidemic finally prevailed.