The First Secretary of the Socialist Party, Olivier Faure, affirmed this Tuesday on BFMTV-RMC that an agreement with the government is “possible” in “a few hours” on the question of the budget and in particular pension reform.
The leader of the Socialist Party, Olivier Faure, spoke this Tuesday, January 14, of the Socialists' negotiations with the government, which seemed to be deadlocked until now, a few hours before François Bayrou's general policy declaration.
“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 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.
-The PS wants to be “a useful opposition”
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.
Bayrou Government: and now, what are the next steps?
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 is 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 to 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.
