Emmanuel Macron wants the reform “to be able to go to the end of its democratic journey”

Emmanuel Macron comes out of his silence. The President of the Republic expressed the wish, on Sunday March 19, that the pension reform “can go to the end of his democratic journey with respect for all”. Three days earlier, Elisabeth Borne engaged the constitutional weapon of 49.3 to have the reform adopted without a vote, after the decision to trigger it taken with Emmanuel Macron.

“After months of political and social consultation and more than 170 hours of debate which resulted in the vote of a compromise text between the Senate and the National Assembly, the President of the Republic expressed to the two Presidents [du Sénat et de l’Assemblée]his wish that the text on pensions can go to the end of its democratic journey with respect for all”, announced the Elysée in a message sent to AFP.

“Support to Parliament”

“Following attempts at intimidation and threats against elected officials and representatives of the State, as well as damage to offices and public buildings, the President of the Republic called Gérard Larcher, President of the Senate, and Yaël Braun-Pivet, President of the National Assembly, to reaffirm her support for Parliament and all of its parliamentarians, as well as the government’s mobilization to ensure that everything is done to protect them.”adds the Elysée.

The pressures on the Macronist deputies or LR have multiplied, with many parliamentary offices targeted for tags and vengeful inscriptions, and that of Eric Ciotti in Nice stoned in the night from Saturday to Sunday, with the inscription “The motion or the pavement”.

Two motions of censure, one transpartisan from the Liot group and the other from the RN, will be debated on Monday March 20 in the National Assembly and put to the vote. The absolute majority bar to bring down the government seems difficult to achieve. The rejection of the motions will be worth definitive adoption of the reform by the Parliament. Appeals to the Constitutional Council have already been announced by the left.