Eric Coquerel, LFI deputy for Seine-Saint-Denis and president of the Finance Committee at the National Assembly, was the guest of “8h30 franceinfo”, Saturday January 18, 2025. He answered questions from Hadrien Bect and Alix Bouilhaguet.
Consultation on pensions: “There will be no global agreement”
“It helps to save time to avoid censorship“, assures this Saturday on franceinfo the LFI deputy and president of the Finance committee at the National Assembly Eric Coquerel, on the subject of the relaunch of the pension reform initiated by François Bayrou with the social partners.
“François Bayrou reinvents the citizens' convention that came to deflate the mobilization of 'yellow vests'”, according to the deputy for Seine-Saint-Denis.In reality, that's what it's for, it's not about repealing the pension reform.“, he continues. Unions and employers met on Friday to launch consultation on pensions and the Prime Minister gave them until “the end of May” to try to reach a compromise. The work will not really start until “result of a flash “mission” carried out by the Court of Auditors on the financing of the pension system, the results of which will be presented on February 19.François Bayrou speaks of a global political agreement and a global agreement on financial balance“, underlines Eric Coquerel. “All this is smoke, made not to censor, made not to repeal“, fumes the president of the Finance Committee.
For the elected LFI, “it will end either with the continuation of the Borne reform, or a worse reform“. “What can happen is that it takes the partners that interest it to decide on a points reform which would be the end of the distribution system“, he argues, citing Medef which defends the establishment of a capitalization scheme.
“We were not elected to allow Mr. Macron to continue to implement his program”
The Socialist Party negotiated concessions with the Prime Minister, François Bayrou, on the budget and the PLFSS, Eric Coquerel responds: “we were not elected to allow Mr. Macron to continue to apply his program“. He claims to be “the left which is faithful to its commitments to the voters and which intends to remain so, which does not allow itself to be fooled by the consequences of macronism“.
Regarding the PS deputies who did not vote on the motion of censure tabled by LFI, this Thursday, the elected LFI has made it their mission to “convince“by the beginning of February”that if we do not want to let Mr. Macron continue his policy for three years, we must censor him“.
-After this vote, Eric Coquerel speaks of a “confidence largely shaken“. “My main objective is not to argue with the Socialist Partyhe continues. My main goal is to convince enough, if not the entire group, to vote for the motion of censure“.
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