at the heart of the negotiations between the executive and the Republican deputies before a probable vote on the text

The government must do everything to obtain a majority for the text on pension reform in order to get out of very delicate weeks. Elisabeth Borne and her team are playing big in the next 48 hours, while the text is the subject of a joint committee (CMP), a parliamentary body to reach a final version of the reform. If successful, the CMP will give rise to a vote on the text in the Senate and then in the National Assembly.

Before these decisive deadlines, negotiations are going well behind the scenes between the executive and the deputies Les Républicains, whose votes could tip the balance in favor of a favorable vote in the National Assembly. “See them one by one, in order to convince the most reluctant“, Emmanuel Macron would have said, according to one of his interlocutors. Since the last Council of Ministers, the instructions are clear, “there is no hesitation. Everybody gets into it“, assures an adviser.

Ministers on the move

Each minister affected by the reform has been ordered to contact recalcitrant LR deputies by telephone. “We managed to convince three of them in the last few hours. On paper, it passes, we have twenty votes in advance. The problem is they can do it to us backwards at the last minute“, warns a minister before one of the major stages of the start of Emmanuel Macron’s second five-year term.