As if nothing had happened or rather, as if the page was turning. Very far, in any case, from the atmosphere of armed vigil which may have existed at the peak of the conflict against the pension reform. This is the impression that the corridors of power gave on Monday, on the eve of a new – and it is hoped within the government – of a last day of mobilization against the pension reform at the call of the leaders of the inter-union.
The Head of State embarked on a two-day “memorial” trip: this Monday afternoon at Mont-Saint-Michel, symbol of the “French spirit” of “resilience” and “resistance” according to the Elysée, for the millennium of its abbey; Tuesday in Colleville-Montgomery (Calvados) to pay tribute to the 177 French who landed there on June 6, 1944 in the Kieffer commando.
“Neither apprehension nor relief”
Elisabeth Borne, she presented this Monday afternoon, as part of the National Council for Refoundation (CNR) a battery of measures to defuse the “social bomb” that is the housing crisis in the words of Minister Delegate Olivier Klein.
THE first implementing decrees of the pension reform were published this weekend – including the one which lowers the legal age from 62 to 64 – but “that did not bring up the subject”, estimates an adviser from the executive.
However, it is a certain caution that is displayed within the executive while according to the services of the Ministry of the Interior, between 400,000 and 600,000 demonstrators are expected in the streets this Tuesday – including 40,000 to 70,000 in Paris. “Nobody ventures to qualify this new day of mobilization, we will see. There is neither apprehension nor relief, but points of vigilance as always on the presence of black blocks”, ures the same.
“It is not negligible, but it is three times less important than the peak” of the demonstrations , judges another. “The ministerial offices are no longer crossed by anxieties like a few weeks ago. They are more afraid of excesses around the Liot group’s bill on the repeal of the pension reform, ”says a government source.
In a column published in “Le Monde” on Monday, the deputy Liot Charles de Courson as well as the presidents of the groups of the Nupes in the embly call on the president of the National embly, Yaël Braun-Pivet, to let this proposal live. of law and, therefore, not to consider inadmissible under article 40 of the Constitution the amendment to reduce the legal retirement age to 62 years. This, while Yaël Braun-Pivet ured that she would take her responsibilities in the matter.
The signatories of the tribune ask him on the contrary to give up this “scenario, sewn with white thread, written […] under the dictation of the President of the Republic”. They evoke a “denial of democracy” and warn of “an increase in anger and violence”.
Absence of bad news
But “what could have been a losing trio is turning around with so far the absence of bad news”, notes an adviser who lists the maintenance of France’s rating by the S&P rating agency the failure of the oppositions in the Social Affairs Committee on the proposal of the Liot group and a day of mobilization this Tuesday with very few disruptions expected .
“We manage to talk more about things other than pensions. Then, does it print? I wouldn’t put my hand to cut,” said a government source. “In people’s minds, it’s gone. This does not mean that they have forgiven. They will remember it in the next elections, wants to believe another who does not imagine a spontaneous motion of censure. But it could well be this week that the page will be turned. »
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