On the pension reform, the executive can count on Gérard Larcher. On the occasion of his wishes to senators on Tuesday, President LR of the Senate nevertheless recognized that “the France of January 2023 is a France which questions itself, which sometimes doubts”.
“There are reforms that are looming, I personally consider them necessary, even if some will provoke social mobilizations and passionate debates”, he developed in the presence of Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne, citing the pension reform.
“We will have to escape postures, blockages, to respond to the many concerns and questions of our fellow citizens”, declared Gérard Larcher, recalling that the reform envisaged by the government is “not very far from what with constancy and in a spirit of dialogue the senatorial majority for four years”. “No, Parliament is not a ZAD! It can sometimes be a place of passionate debate, but it must also be a place of discernment and reason,” he stressed.
According to the President of the Senate, the executive must not however stop at the pension file. He thus called on the government to initiate structural reforms “without delay”, referring to “the control of our public expenditure, the school”, or the health system, “which is undoubtedly one of the first concerns of our fellow citizens. and our elected officials.
Request for a “great law of decentralization”
He also called for a “great law of decentralization and local freedoms”. “It’s not just a text for a new distribution of powers, for the reorganization of the State (…) that we need, it’s more than that! “. “I call for a new architecture of responsibility and decision-making: it’s called freedom, it breaks with verticality,” he continued.
Gérard Larcher also specified that the working group on decentralization and local freedoms installed last October in the Senate will publish its conclusions “in the spring”. “It seems that the reform of our institutions is once again on the agenda during this five-year term. We are ready for it, ”he said again, indicating that a transpartisan working group has been created in the Senate. But “pay attention to the fair representation of the territories and to the respect of our constitutional balances”, he finally warned.