This is a new warning from within the majority.
The executive has been warned: if it accelerates its pension reform, by submitting it to Parliament this fall, via an amendment to the Social Security draft budget (PLFSS), it risks being repudiated by its centrist allies.
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The position of the Democratic Movement deputies (MoDem) would be
“certainly to vote against this amendment”
, declared Tuesday, during a press briefing, the centrist leader Jean-Paul Mattei.
His group
"will not be able to accept a reform, small or large, through an amendment"
, he added, before asking for
"consultation
" to "
be in the right political moment"
.
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This warning comes the day before her meeting with the Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne, who receives the presidents of parliamentary groups on Wednesday and Thursday to discuss the texts for the start of the school year.
Jean-Paul Mattei, close to François Bayrou, takes up the rhetoric of the president of the MoDem, opposed to any
"passage in force"
.
The risk, according to the High Commissioner for Planning, is
"first to unite the oppositions between them, then to divide French society"
, he declared in
Le Parisien
on Saturday .
Tense
Emmanuel Macron tensed up part of his majority, oppositions and unions last week, announcing plans to accelerate his pension reform, via a postponement of the legal retirement age or an extension of the contribution period.
If the three components of the majority - Renaissance, the MoDem and Horizons - support this project, many are wondering about the method to be used.
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“We are all reformers. But we cannot preach social dialogue on Monday and the reverse the next day
,” insists the vice-president of MoDem deputies, Philippe Vigier.
The warning of the Modem was seized on the fly by the leader of the Insoumis deputies.
“The macronie crumbles a little more every day
,” wrote Mathilde Panot on Twitter.
"Welcome to the MoDem in the camp of opponents of the permanent coup and the social coup."
Without waiting for the government's decision, the MoDem intends to advance its priorities on pensions.
He must submit to the National Assembly, on October 6, a bill aimed at allowing the transfer of quarters of pensions between spouses.
A new opportunity to play his part as a particular partner of the majority.
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