The reform of 2023 “will apply” in the event of the lack of agreement between the social partners, warns François Bayrou

What will happen once the “conclave” closed? Without agreement between the social partners, who struggle to agree on the contested reform of pensions of 2023, the law of Elisabeth Borne “will apply”, REWED TUEST Tuesday, Prime Minister François Bayrou, who had committed to seizing the Parliament in the event of a partial agreement. “I said that if there was an agreement, it would be subject to Parliament. And if there is no agreement (…), it is the reform as it was adopted” in December 2023 “that will apply”, He said before the National Assembly, during the questions to the government.

He responded to the leader of socialist deputies Boris Vallaud, who asked him that the “Last word returns to parliament” On this law, whether the social partners reach a “global” agreement or not. To avoid censorship by the socialists at the birth of his government, the Prime Minister had enabled unions and employers to open negotiations to review the reform of 2023.

Boris Vallaud then spoke and asked François Bayrou to hold “His commitments made” pour “A return to Parliament” of the text, that there is an agreement “global” or not. “These are the words you have put on paper. That is to say that you have to trust social dialogue and parliamentary debate”, said the MP of the Landes.

In a letter dated January 16 addressed to the leaders of socialist parliamentary groups, François Bayrou had listed government concessions. “If the social partners do not reach a global agreement, we will nevertheless present the advances resulting from the work of the social partners, subject to a political agreement and a global financial balance”, and this in the form of a “New bill”, had written the Prime Minister.