Socialists, environmentalists and communists met with the Minister of Finance and the Minister of Finance, but rebellious France (the first party in terms of deputies of the New Popular Front) did not participate in the budget negotiations.
The French government led by the centrist Prime Minister François Bayrouaims for a budget agreement with moderate left parties in exchange for concessions on the latest pension reform They demand its annulment, or at least its suspension.
The first secretary of the Socialist party (PS), Olivier Faure, explained on Thursday, hours after a meeting with the Minister of Finance, Éric Lombard, that “there is no veto” by the executive on his demand for this pension reform, which was adopted in 2023 amid major protests, to change. and which postpones the minimum retirement age from 62 to 64.
In an interview with the channel TF1, Faure recalled what they did What they propose is that the pension reform be suspended and that this will give rise to a discussion that will last several months to replace the system with another system that also guarantees financing, realizing that by the end of this decade it will be necessary to raise an additional EUR 15 billion to pay for pensions.
Those responsible also attended the discussions with Lombard and with the Minister of Finance, Amélie de Montchalin socialists, environmentalists and communistsbut not that of La Francia Insumisa (LFI), which is the first in terms of number of deputies among the parties that are part of the New Popular Front (NFP), the left-wing coalition.
Rebellious France He did not want to participate in the consultations on the budgets opened by the French government and has promised that he will table a motion of censure to overthrow him as soon as Bayrou gives his general policy speech to the National Assembly on the 14th.
Its leader, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, denounced in his a total disrespect for our alliance.”
Source: EITB
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