Pension reform: the Socialist Party files a motion of censure

"You made commitments" that "were not kept," declared the president of the Socialist Party group, Boris Vallaud, addressing François Bayrou in the National Assembly.

On probation. Prime Minister François Bayrou, who met with social partners on Tuesday, June 24, to try to overcome the failure of the pensions conclave , is now the target of a motion of censure from Socialist Party deputies. "You made commitments" that "were not kept," declared Boris Vallaud, president of the Socialist Party group in the National Assembly, in the chamber of the National Assembly.

The Socialists are criticizing François Bayrou for not committing to presenting a text that would allow for a debate on the retirement age of 64. "The goal of the work I have set myself is that (...) we find this path" towards "a text that could be examined by the national representation," replied François Bayrou. Just before this face-to-face meeting in the hemicycle, he received at Matignon the three unions participating in the conclave (CDFT, CFTC and CFE-CGC), then the president of Medef, Patrick Martin, and finally the head of CPME, Amir Reza-Tofighi.

The Prime Minister decided to launch these meetings after the failure of the conclave on Monday evening , which is also a setback for the method of social dialogue that he advocated. "I cannot accept without reacting that we are satisfied with failing so close to the goal," he explained on Tuesday morning.

Before the Socialists, La France Insoumise quickly called on other left-wing groups on Monday evening to join a motion of no confidence in the government. But in the absence of votes from the National Rally, which has warned it will not join, the government seems certain to remain in power. Before facing even more perilous budget debates this summer and fall.