For its busy back-to-school program, the government “will continue on the path of consultation” with “all the oppositions in the republican arc” which “worked” this summer, the government spokesperson assured on Tuesday. Olivier Veran.
“If you ask me the question of whether we are going to continue with what has worked, the answer is yes, of course, not only with LR, with all the oppositions in the republican arc who agree to work with us, ”replied the minister on France Inter.
“We found agreements with the left and the right”
“We saw that it was possible, we found agreements with the left and the right, we found agreements with the Communists and with the Republicans and we managed to have all the texts that we presented to Parliament adopted. and it was not an easy thing,” he added.
“We will continue on this path of consultation, this is what works the most and in addition, this is the message that the French sent us during the legislative elections”, he hammered.
For the executive, deprived of an absolute majority since June, the political horizon is darkening after a first successful leap over the purchasing power package.
“We bring them together”
Regarding the reform of pensions and that of unemployment insurance, “we put them to the consultation”, explained Olivier Véran, specifying that “from this weekend Olivier Dussopt, the Minister of Labor, will consult the social partners on the issue of unemployment insurance.
The spokesperson also stressed that “the National Council for Refoundation which will be inaugurated on September 8 under the aegis of the President of the Republic and the Prime Minister will make it possible to share a diagnosis at the national level with the living forces of the nation, the political forces, associations, trade unions, experts to pool elements of shared diagnosis, in transparency”.
Responding to “social anger”
“There is just one central point to which we will not return: no increase in debt and no increase in taxes”, added Olivier Véran for whom “the room for maneuver is in the work”, recalling “that we have fallen to 7% unemployment rate and that we want to go to an unemployment rate close to 5%”.
“Social anger, we respond to it with the objective of purchasing power and the objective of full employment and reindustrialization”, insisted the spokesperson, also stressing that “the State intervenes to protect the French to combat the effects of inflation.