After extra time, shots on goal in Matignon!

François Bayrou announced Tuesday morning that he was going to meet the organizations who participated in the discussions, while the conclave ended the day before without agreement., Despite a final day of negotiations. A blow, for a Prime Minister who wanted to resuscitate social dialogue.

ANearly five months of negotiation and despite the additional negotiation session, Monday, June 23, the observation is clear: no agreement on the reform of 2023 was found. But the Prime Minister does not want to remain on this failure which gives reason to all those who had slammed the door. François Bayrou spoke, on the morning of Tuesday, June 24, to announce a summons of the social partners: “I cannot accept without reacting that we are satisfied to fail so close to the goal”he said.

This very morning speaking of the Prime Minister on Tuesday, June 24, was aimed at cutting the grass under the foot of union representatives and employers. François Bayrou, speaking at 7 am, wanted to speak before those who participated in this negotiation, who therefore failed, settled their accounts in the morning radio and television, which would have dug the gap a little more.

After the extensions of the conclave, with the day of more discussion on Monday, we are now going on penalties on Tuesday. François Bayrou repeats that the various participants were very close to an agreement, in particular because the government had stood away from this negotiation and let the social partners discuss. By taking control, since he invites union representatives and employers to Matignon, François Bayrou obviously takes the risk of taking on the responsibility a little more, and therefore paying the political price of a failure.

This conclave was his idea. This find which had offered him the Prime Minister the indulgence of the socialists to avoid censorship in February. The art of negotiation, the search for compromise remains its political DNA. His ambition was also to try to restore social dialogue, so often bypassed or even trampled by Emmanuel Macron. Today it is about its political credibility, but also of its future. It is therefore a personal failure for the time being.

A censorship motion will be deposited by the rebellious. Communists and environmentalists will probably rally. Socialists threaten to do so. François Bayrou obviously wishes to avoid falling. Even if the RN should not vote for this motion of censorship, the Prime Minister does not want to find himself in the hand of Marine Le Pen. He saw what he cost Michel Barnier. He hopes not to undergo the same fate.