The Minister of Labor responded to the accusations of Laurent Berger, who in the columns of Parisian was annoyed this Saturday by the “contempt returned to the workers”, which “will have been constant”. This Sunday, Olivier Dussopt refuted any form of “contempt” of the government in the express promulgation of the pension reform: “There is no contempt, on the contrary, there is a desire to work with all (… ) there is a desire for everyone to be respected in their skills”
“We did what was necessary, what was necessary, still justified Olivier Dussopt interviewed at the Grand Rendez-vous d’Europe 1 / CNews. There is no brutality in the fact of applying the law, the text is promulgated, there is no provocation. The minister also called for “(s) wishes, like the President of the Republic, like the Prime Minister, that the dialogue with the social partners can resume”.
Emmanuel Macron “is becoming the president of chaos”
The unpopular pension reform (“Law of April 14, 2023 on the amending financing of Social Security for 2023”), with its flagship measure of raising the retirement age to 64, was promulgated on Friday night in Saturday at Official newspaper, after validation of most of the text by the Constitutional Council. And Emmanuel Macron will address the French on Monday, wishing to show his desire to quickly relaunch his second five-year term, hampered by the social and political crisis.
Emmanuel Macron will speak “in a logic of appeasement”, to “take stock” of the three months of crisis and “also look at what has advanced alongside pensions”, promised on TF1 government spokesperson Olivier Véran, citing the drop in unemployment and taxes. Refusing to enter into this post-crisis “agenda” of the executive, all the unions have expressed their “determination” to continue the fight. Starting by declining an invitation to the Élysée on Tuesday. Emmanuel Macron “is becoming the president of chaos” and “opens a boulevard to the National Rally”, thus slammed the secretary general of the CGT Sophie Binet.