Borne is committed to “not forcing” things and believes it is necessary to “respect a period of recovery”

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French Prime Minister, Elizabeth Borne He is in favor of tackling pension reform in a conciliatory way, respecting the times and “without forcing”. This is stated in an interview published by the French newspaper on Friday the worldfrom whose lines comes one are distinct, at least in tone, from President Emmanuel Macron’s messagemuch more vigorously on the issue of pension reform.

Borne drops a few sentences about his intention to contact the unions and more generally to calm the situation, but without admitting to the unions what their demand has been since the protests started in January: the withdrawal of pension reform.

The Prime Minister stressed in the interview that if the reform goes ahead, the right time must be found to restore dialogue, that “unions need not leave this series humiliated”, that “a period of recovery must be respected” and in which “we have to be extremely careful not to force things” because “the country needs rest”.

For Borne, the priority it should be to point the government in a direction before seeking political allies to support them to vote on laws in parliament (Macron has asked her to broaden her parliamentary base) and avoid issues that could lead to conflict . His idea is to address issues such as employment, working conditions, education and health to address issues such as the impoverishment of the middle class.

According to Le Monde, The prime minister awaits Macron’s return from China to see what you think of all this, and specify that at the same time the elysium shakes different scenarios including change their prime minister. An option that, according to Borne, is not appropriate now with the climate of social tension that prevails on the streets: “this is not the time to swerve.”

Precisely during his trip to China, Macron, who considers himself fully legitimized to tackle the reform and defends that the electoral program by which he was elected already included pension reform and the postponement of the retirement age, strongly responded to the trade unions, in particular to the leader of the first trade union in the country, Laurent Berger.

When asked about this, Berger acknowledged this Friday in an interview with the BFMTV channel that Borne’s tone has always been one of respect and candid dialogue, very different from Macron’s: “it’s different from throwing petrol on the fire .”

But beyond this question of the tone used by one or the other, the Secretary General of the French Democratic Confederation of Labor (CFDT) has reiterated that “the most important thing in the end is whether this reform will be implemented or not” because the opposition on the street and in public opinion “has not moved” and remains in the majority.

After the eleventh day of national mobilization organized this Thursday, in which hundreds of thousands of people again took to the streets in demonstrations organized across the country, the unions have again collectively decided to organize on Thursday the twelfth. 13th.

It will be the eve of the 14th, a key day, because then the Constitutional Council will issue its opinion on whether or not to validate the pension law, whose main and most controversial axis is to postpone the minimum retirement age from now on. 62 to 64 years.