François Bayrou faced with the risk of getting bogged down

The operation was supposed to allow François Bayrou to find a way to form a government. Twenty-four hours after his “public offer of participation” made to political forces, excluding the National Rally (RN) and La France insoumise (LFI), the Prime Minister is still bogged down.

While the Béarnais hopes to obtain a non-censorship agreement with left-wing groups, the Socialist Party (PS) deplored, Friday December 20, in a letter addressed to the Prime Minister, its “lack of real desire to break with what led to the failure of Michel Barnier's government to date”.

The leaders of the PS have certainly taken note that “the question of pensions was no longer a taboo subject” for Mr. Bayrou. On Thursday, the latter proposed reopening the discussion on the reform, going so far as to call into question the starting age at 64. But it had to be at the cost of “global conference” between social partners and parties and a timetable of “eight to nine months”. A failure of these talks would then result in the safeguarding of the text validated after recourse to article 49 paragraph 3 of the Constitution, in spring 2023. “We solemnly reaffirm our request for the immediate suspension of the 2023 pension reform”replied the socialists, who are calling for the organization of a referendum if “no consensus emerges” after holding a “social conference”.

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