After four months of negotiations, the conclave on the reform of pension of 2023, led to a failure. Monday, June 23, after the last meeting between the social partners, the trade union and employer organizations failed to find common ground. But François Bayrou, who launched this last cycle of negotiations last January, remains optimistic.
Tuesday morning, the Prime Minister said he wanted again “Search a way” With participants in the reclutor’s conclave. Several of them had slammed the conclave door fairly early like FO and the CGT. There were still five to negotiate: MEDEF, the main employers’ organization, the CPME which represents small and medium-sized enterprises as well as the CFDT, the CFTC and the CFE-CGC which represent the employees.
The Prime Minister does not lose hope
François Bayrou does not want to be satisfied with the failure of the conclave “So close to the goal”. “I can naturally understand that we see a failure when one is on radically different or opposite positions. But I cannot accept without reacting that we are satisfied to fail so close to the goal ”said the Prime Minister. “I therefore consider that our duty is not to give up and do everything to allow us to overcome such a blockage. This is why I decided to invite the organizations that worked together during these four months to meet me this morning to seek a way in the interest of our country ”he said on Tuesday morning.
Conclave participants are expected in Matignon from noon, starting with union organizations (the CFDT, the CFTC and the CFE-CGC), then it will be the turn of employers’ organizations. The MEDEF has an appointment at 1:45 p.m. and the CPME at 8 p.m. Catherine Vautrin, Minister of Labor and Astrid Panosyan-Bouvet, in charge of labor and employment will be present at meetings in Matignon throughout the day.
“We are not going to be in negotiations with the Prime Minister”warned Marylise Léon, at the head of the CFDT. “We have made a lot of efforts and concessions on the union side, with in particular a responsibility on the question of financial balance. We defended until the end what was at the heart of the CFDT proposal (…) and there, the employers were more backwards than to really want to negotiate ”continued the trade unionist, questioned on TF1.
François Bayrou under the threat of a motion of censorship
As for employers, the two organizations have indicated that they will go to Matignon. “Of course, social dialogue must continue”said Patrick Martin, the president of Medef, interviewed on Franceinfo. “The voice of passage, it exists”he added. “The CGT and Force Ouvrière must be invited” In Matignon by François Bayrou, this morning asked the CGT secretary general on RMC, Sophie Binet.
On Tuesday, the LFI group’s head of the National Assembly, Mathilde Panot, announced the deposit of a censorship motion against François Bayrou. “Do not censor Bayrou is to let the retirement age to retire at 64 years old”justified Mathilde Panot. Socialists will also go “Towards censorship”if the Parliament is not seized on the pension reform, as provided for in the event of agreement between the social partners, said Olivier Faure, the first secretary of the PS. “François Bayrou had committed in writing to the fact that Parliament has the last word. If Parliament is not seized, if we do not have the possibility of depositing amendments which would make it possible to define what would be the conditions for a return to balance in exchange for a return (at the age of departure) at 62, actually, we will go to censorship “made Olivier Faure known on BFMTV Tuesday morning.
