Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne is due to receive the presidents of groups from the National Assembly and the Senate on Wednesday September 21 and Thursday September 22 in the midst of a debate on pension reform, according to her official agenda published on Tuesday September 20.
"
The agenda is not limited to pensions
", specified Matignon to AFP, underlining that Elisabeth Borne receives them "
upstream of the parliamentary session
" which begins on October 3 with in particular the examination of the project unemployment insurance bill and budget.
Amendment to the social security budget
Elisabeth Borne will first receive the representatives of the majority then the independents in the Senate, the Communists and the ecologists of the two chambers, as well as the Centrist Union in the Senate.
In the afternoon, it will be the turn of the Freedom, Independence, Overseas and Territories group in the Assembly and of the European Democratic and Social Rally in the Senate, the two presidents of the LR group and finally the Socialist representatives of the two chambers.
Thursday, Elisabeth Borne will receive Marine Le Pen, president of the RN group at the National Assembly.
The Minister of Labor Olivier Dussopt assured Tuesday that the hypothesis of a pension reform in the next Social Security budget “
is not quite decided
”.
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Despite the unanimous opposition of the unions and the opposition, the track of a reform by an amendment to the Social Security budget "
is part of the scenarios
" envisaged by the executive, he nevertheless confirmed on RTL.
Assuring that he wanted to "
avoid what is called a passage in force
", he considered "
normal that the government keep all possibilities
".
“
An amendment is not a dirty word
,” said Monday on
LCP
and
Public Senate
the Minister Delegate for Relations with Parliament, Franck Riester, who will participate in these meetings.
Risks of motion of censure
The question of the calendar also animated the meeting of the group of deputies Renaissance (ex-LREM) Tuesday morning, reported a participant.
“
You have to make decisions.
It is a marker of courage.
The PLFSS (social security financing bill, editor's note) is first and foremost about social security and therefore pensions.
Let
's go, ”pleaded Éric Woerth (ex-LR), very applauded.
But others spoke out against a reform via the Social Security draft budget.
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A member of the government was surprised this week at the method of using an amendment to the Social Security draft budget, seeing it as a “
trial balloon
”.
And warned against the temptation to overuse 49.3, at the risk of triggering the filing of a motion of censure on the part of the opposition.