Landing and catapulting.
The double maneuver is very risky.
It consists of the high-speed landing and take-off of a fighter jet on an aircraft carrier.
The slightest misstep, and disaster is guaranteed.
Suffice to say that such an operation requires control and composure.
Jean Castex will also have the opportunity to attend one of them this Saturday morning, after a night spent aboard the "Charles-de-Gaulle".
What give him ideas on how to bring pension reform back to the forefront of the political agenda?
For the Prime Minister, who would most certainly have to bring the text before Parliament, if necessary, the objective is indeed simple on paper: to land a new bill before the end of the five-year term, and to propel a reform in the wake of it. oh so necessary to bring the system back to balance.
A challenge for the head of government.
A political bet for Emmanuel Macron less than a year from the presidential election.
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Traveling in the Lot this Thursday, the Head of State put his feet in the dish: "I will have to make decisions in the coming weeks, some difficult", he warned, acknowledging that if a pension reform should be put back on the bench, it would not be "in the same terms" as the previous one, which had been suspended in the spring of 2020. In any case, one thing is certain, "nothing is excluded », Asserts Macron.
Effectively.
In recent days, at all levels of power, it has been turbulent to know how to bring back such a sensitive text, after the weeks of strikes that paralyzed the country during the winter of 2019-2020.
With part of the opinion clashed on the issue of extending the retirement age, the executive had broken some teeth.
The burden of Covid debt
Within the majority, however, opinions are divided.
At Bercy, of course, we push so that the case is not abandoned.
Especially since the health crisis has passed there, with an increasingly dizzying debt.
Conversely, in the left wing of Macronie, we want to be more careful.
Like the President of the National Assembly, Richard Ferrand, who would prefer that a reform of this scope be approached rather at the start of the second quinquennium… if the outgoing president is re-elected of course.
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At the Elysee Palace, it is hammered that "standing still is not an action", that "we must act until the last quarter of an hour, also taking into account the state of France after these unprecedented months ".
“He needs a major reform by the end of the five-year term.
Nothing would be more terrible for him than to remain on this failure of pensions when approaching the presidential election, ”breathes a relative.
Dependence and youth plan
Emmanuel Macron and Jean Castex, who spoke recently on the subject, have at least already agreed on one thing: "If a text is presented again, it will take something simple and clear for the French" , they say. In private, the Head of State also makes no secret of his desire to be on the offensive in this matter, considering that it is his “responsibility to initiate an ambitious and crucial reform for the generations to come. come and the finances of our country ”.
He now gives himself a month to decide. "Mid-July, at the latest, his decision will be made," we whisper. He could announce it on July 14, on the occasion of an intervention devoted to the "reconstruction of France", where the issues of dependence and a major youth plan could also be addressed. “If we cannot present a bill by the end of July in the Council of Ministers, then that will not be possible. The remaining parliamentary time will no longer be enough for such an important reform, ”said a spawn of the majority. The countdown begins.
