The Prime Minister also put forward to the party leaders and parliamentary groups present the idea of reopening a discussion on the pension reform adopted in 2023. François Bayrou would have proposed to “resume without suspending” the discussions around this text, according to his entourage . “And if we don’t succeed, we return to the 2023 reform” which notably shifted the starting age to 64, said the same source.
“Santa Claus”
However, there is no guarantee that the Prime Minister’s proposals will move the lines, as the reception of this summit meeting was cool among certain guests, even if all honored their participation. “François Bayrou has his censorship in his hands, it’s up to him to convince us,” launched Marine Tondelier before the meeting.
The Ecologists in fact made it known on Thursday morning that they would go to Matignon, while calling, however, not to pursue a policy “disavowed by the voters”. Same tone among the communists, who also intend to “urge the Prime Minister to accelerate aid to the inhabitants of Mayotte”.
The reaction was quick from La France insoumise. “Normally, adults no longer believe in Santa Claus,” joked his coordinator Manuel Bompard on X.
The meeting format is reminiscent of that of nine days ago around Emmanuel Macron at the Élysée, where scenarios of non-censorship of oppositions were discussed, in exchange for an absence of recourse to 49.3 by the government or upon dissolution by the president.
Critic dumpster
Appointed on Friday, François Bayrou has since increased the number of official or more informal interviews. But his first week in Matignon was above all marked by the barrage of criticism on his presence Monday evening at the Municipal Council of Pau, a city of which he intends to remain mayor, when a cyclone had just ravaged Mayotte.
On Wednesday, François Bayrou received the resigning Minister of the Interior Bruno Retailleau, who had just declared that the conditions were “not met” for his continuation at Place Beauvau.
