These next few days will be marked in particular by meetings in Matignon between the head of government and the unions, but also by an eleventh day of national mobilization. Update on the social timetable for pension reform.
Elisabeth Borne has planned to receive the parliamentary groups at the beginning of next week, after Emmanuel Macron has entrusted her with the mission of “expanding the majority”.
Representatives of the elected National Rally (RN), Les Républcains (LR) and those of the Freedoms, Independents, Overseas and Territories (LIOT) group will go to Matignon, Politico reported Friday morning. The leaders of the environmentalist and socialist groups have not yet announced their decision.
The parties and parliamentary groups La France insoumise (LFI) and communists (PCF) have decided not to respond to the invitation of the Prime Minister, they announced on March 30. “Rebellious France and its parliamentary group will not go to meet Elisabeth Borne,” LFI coordinator Manuel Bompard tweeted. “As it is at the Elysée that everything is decided, unfortunately, we decline the invitation of the Prime Minister. We ask to be received by the President of the Republic. It is urgent that he act! “, commented, for his part, the national secretary of the PCF, Fabien Roussel, on Twitter.
On the initiative of the Communists, the parliamentarians of the left have planned Tuesday at 10:30 a.m. a “republican procession”, which will march from the Assembly to the Elysée, to “deliver, in person, to the President of the Republic a letter asking for the withdrawal of the reform which provides for the postponement of the legal retirement age to 64, they write in a press release.
During the same day, and after the filing by left-wing deputies of an appeal to challenge the reform, the Constitutional Council will receive them for a hearing at 2:30 p.m., reports Agence France-Presse, citing parliamentary sources.
On the eve of an eleventh day of action, Elisabeth Borne must receive in turn the employers’ organizations and the unions with the aim of “appease” relations with social partners who are determined to address the subjects that annoy, by First, pension reform.
Friday on RMC – BFM-TV, the boss of Medef, Geoffroy Roux de Bézieux, returned to the participation of the employers’ organization in this meeting. “It’s quite normal, because whatever the topics, whether we’re talking about pensions or talking about work, employers have an opinion on the matter,” he said. “We can talk about everything, there’s no reason we can’t talk about pensions,” he added when he was not sure whether this subject would be addressed by Ms. Borne during these consultations.
The Confederation of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (CPME) welcomed in a press release “having been invited to a meeting of the three national interprofessional organizations representing businesses”, among which is also the Union of Local Businesses (U2P ), which represents artisans and the liberal professions. The CPME considers it “important not to limit the discussion with the social partners to the only trade union organizations of employees”.
For its part, “the united inter-union” will meet the Prime Minister at the invitation of the government, “to demand the withdrawal of the reform” of pensions, announced Friday, March 31 the new secretary general of the National Confederation of Labor (CGT ), Sophie Binet. “We will go, the whole inter-union, united, to demand the withdrawal of this reform in a firm, determined way,” said Ms. Binet.
The participation of the CGT in the meeting with the Prime Minister was a subject of internal discussions. But it was ultimately the line of maintaining the unity of the inter-union that won, the French Democratic Cofederation of Labor (CFDT) wishing to participate in the meeting. Laurent Berger’s proposal for a truce or mediation on this file was nevertheless rejected by the new leader of the CGT.
The inter-union, in the fight against the pension reform, called Tuesday March 28 for an eleventh day of “strike and demonstrations” Thursday April 6, considering that “the lack of response from the executive leads to a situation of tension » worrying.
The intersyndicale “calls for local union rallies defined locally and for a new big day of strikes and demonstrations on Thursday April 6 all over the country”, she said in a press release read by the two co-delegates of Solidarity, Simon Duteil and Murielle Guilbert. “After two months of an exemplary and unprecedented social movement for fifty years, very widely supported by the population, and a chaotic parliamentary course, the lack of response from the executive has led to a situation of tension in the country which worries us. very strongly,” say the unions.
The Constitutional Council must render two long-awaited decisions: one on the constitutionality of the bill adopted in Parliament after an appeal to 49.3 on March 16, the other on the admissibility of the request for a shared initiative referendum (RIP) launched from the left.
If the request for a RIP is validated, a nine-month campaign will then begin to collect more than 4.8 million citizen signatures, the first condition to pave the way for the organization of a referendum. The organization of such a consultation would not automatically suspend the possible promulgation of the text on pensions, according to the constitutionalist Anne-Charlène Bezzina.
