The Socialist Party made a compromise proposal overnight to Prime Minister François Bayrou and considers “an agreement possible” in “a few hours” on the question of the budget and in particular pension reform, its first secretary Olivier Faure explained on Tuesday.
“I think we can conclude”, said the socialist deputy on RMC-BFMTV, about this “proposal” which he refuses to “unveil”, made “on the telephone” after a non-conclusive meeting in the evening of Monday in Matignon.
François Bayrou must deliver his general policy declaration at 3:00 p.m. before the National Assembly. An agreement between the government and the PS would mean that the latter would not vote on a motion of censure against the government.
“If the Prime Minister definitively accepts it, it is up to him to announce it,” declared Olivier Faure about this final phase of negotiation, saying he was “serene”.
“We are in the process of obtaining a certain number of concessions which I find remarkable because they make it possible to break with what we ourselves have censored, that is to say the Barnier budget “, assured Olivier Faure.
-Faced with criticism from the Insoumis, he recalled that the PS was “in the opposition, we remain there, but we are a useful opposition, useful to the country”. “There is a left that is screaming and a left that is working,” he said.
Regarding pension reform, he called for the opening of a discussion to review the starting age set at 64 years by the 2023 law.
“In the medium term, it's 15 billion (euros) to find per year” so “we discuss, we show that other methods of financing exist and there, from my point of view, we go through the law for a change,” he explained.
An agreement on this would mean non-censorship of the Bayrou government, Olivier Faure clarified, unless “if, at some point, it came back to the idea of this government to link its future to that of the extreme right”. “Then the sanction would be immediate,” he warned.
