facing the elected representatives of the majority Emmanuel Macron wanted to “draw the prospects for the years to come”, according to the deputy Renaissance Benjamin Haddad

“The Head of State wanted to exchange with us with broken sticks”declares Tuesday, March 21 on franceinfo Benjamin Haddad, Renaissance deputy for Paris, present at the meeting organized at the Élysée by Emmanuel Macron who received the deputies of the majority the day after the rejection of the two motions of censure in the Assembly.

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Benjamin Haddad adds that the Head of State wanted “draw the prospects for the weeks and years to come over the long term, the rest of the five-year term and always this project which is essential: to continue to reform the country to achieve full employment, to continue this reduction in unemployment. Another perspective: the ecology, health, school.”

“We have a situation of relative majority in the National Assembly, it must be an opportunity for our democracy to work better with the opposition and then relaunch the dialogue with the social partners and civil society.”

Benjamin Haddad, Renaissance MP

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To achieve this objective, Benjamin Haddad announces “give time in the next month to reflect on how we can improve this dialogue”.

“The answer cannot be immobility”

Regarding the pension reform and its adoption: “We thought we had reached an agreement in Parliament and unfortunately we saw that some were not ready to take on this responsibility, this constraint of having a text which probably seemed necessary to them but which was unpopular.” Ithe deputy indicates that he still wants “to reflect on” in the way “which we can work better on these elements”.

He recalls that “the legitimacy of a reform, its necessity is not necessarily linked to its popularity”. Finally, Benjamin Haddad concludes by saying that the president recalled Tuesday evening before the parliamentarians “the need for this reform” : “The answer cannot be immobility. We must continue to move forward and build with the French, to reform.”