“Yes, we will reform pensions”.
While the government presents its draft budget for 2023 on Monday, Gabriel Attal justifies in the JDD this Sunday the pension reform by the need to finance the measures of the five-year term without "raising taxes or causing the debt to explode".
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Work more to live better
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I prefer to tell the truth to the French, even if it can sometimes be difficult to hear, ”explains the Minister of Public Accounts.
But by what means: by an amendment to the Social Security budget or by a future text of law?
On this central question which divides even within the majority, Gabriel Attal kicks in touch.
“This point will be decided by the President and the Prime Minister.
But whatever the solution chosen, one thing is certain: the social partners and the Parliament will be at the heart of the debates, ”he assures.
Emmanuel Macron and Élisabeth Borne are bringing together ministers and the majority around this subject this week.
Appointed head of the National Council for Refoundation (CNR), François Bayrou, had expressed in our columns his fear of seeing society divided in the case of the use of 49.3 by the government on the pension file.
“Getting around the table to guarantee the sustainability of our social model”
This 49.3 - which allows the Prime Minister to engage his responsibility on a text of law, and to have it adopted without a vote of Parliament - the minister does not exclude having recourse to it for the budget.
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“For reasons of principle, of political symbol, (the oppositions) do not plan to vote on the budget, affirms Gabriel Attal.
But the political symbols have never filled the fridge of the French, nor lowered the prices at the pump, nor recruited additional police officers… That leaves little suspense on the outcome, since we have a relative majority.
The oppositions themselves told us that 49.3 was likely.
In any case, France cannot do without having a budget.
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And to call on the trade unions "to sit around the table to guarantee the sustainability of our social model and our ability to finance our pensions" and the opposition "to seek compromises rather than divisions".
