“It would be lunar to have a party that votes for a text in the Senate but not in the National Assembly”, estimates Bruno Le Maire about LR

“It would be crazy to have a party that votes for a text in the Senate but not in the National Assembly”estimated on Monday March 13 on franceinfo the Minister of the Economy Bruno Le Maire, who calls on the responsibility of elected Republicans to vote for the pension reform. “We must put all our forces into the battle to achieve a majority in the National Assembly”assured the minister who did not “no doubt” on the capacity “to block” of the majority.

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Bruno Le Maire reiterated on Monday that the government did not want to use article 49.3 of the Constitution to have the National Assembly approve its pension reform. “I guarantee you that we will do everything necessary this week to build a majority and that is the only option we are working on. 49.3 is not on the table”he said.

“We cannot say we are on the right and refuse the balance of public finances or the balance of the pay-as-you-go pension system.”

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So that the executive does not trigger 49.3, the deputies Les Républicains (LR), divided in the Assembly, will have to vote for the reform with the majority. The Minister of the Economy, himself from the ranks of the right, recalls that the program defended by the candidate LR Valérie Pécresse in the presidential election of 2022 concerned a legal retirement age set at 65 years. “It would be lunar if these deputies who were elected with a legislative program of departure as legal age at 65 do not vote for this text”insisted the minister. “The Republicans have always defended, whatever the President of the Republic, whatever the constitution of their group in the National Assembly, the balance of public finances, he added. By dint of inconsistency, we are going nowhere”he tackled.