This Saturday, the Greens declined Elisabeth Borne’s proposal for a meeting to discuss pension reform. Marine Tondelier’s party still wants to talk to the Prime Minister to discuss law enforcement issues. The meeting will take place on Tuesday noon, but is a reconciliation still possible?
The coming week is already off to a bad start for Elisabeth Borne. After La France insoumise and the Communists, the Greens in turn declined the Prime Minister’s proposal for a meeting to discuss pension reform. “The country is not ready for it and neither are we,” say the environmentalists. A reconciliation mission which therefore promises to be complicated at Matignon.
“How to appease when the government used 49.3?”
Because even if the National Rally where The Republicans responded favorably to the request of the Prime Minister, it is the third refusal suffered by Elisabeth Borne. In a press release published this Saturday, the Greens wonder about the attempt at conciliation by the executive. “How to appease when the government has used 49.3?” Write the ecologists, who add “appeasement cannot be decreed, it is built”.
The Prime Minister has offered talks to the political forces.
The Ecologists will not participate in the meeting to help him “turn the page”. EELV nevertheless wishes to speak urgently with her to get out of the spiral of violence.
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The Greens also criticize the policy of maintaining order which, according to them, has hardened in recent weeks. They thus denounce a “disproportionate use of force”, in particular in Sainte Soline last weekend. The press release concludes with a request for a meeting, not to discuss pensions, but precisely to talk about these issues of maintaining order.
Willingness to dialogue, except on pensions
The request was accepted by Matignon and the meeting will take place on Tuesday noon. Proof that if the executive is inflexible on the pension reform, it nevertheless tries to seize the slightest opportunity to display its desire for dialogue. It is under this auspice that Elisabeth Borne will approach the coming week. With the highlight, the meeting with the unions, Wednesday at Matignon.
Elisabeth Borne must also always face the challenge of the street. Several thousand people demonstrated against the pension reform this Saturday in Vire, in Calvados, where the Prime Minister had been elected deputy.
Source: Europe1
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