A working group in the Senate to "enrich" the decentralization law, announces Larcher as Senate working group enrich decentralisation law!

During the ceremony for the wishes of the associations of local elected representatives gathered under the banner of "United Territories", Gérard Larcher announced the creation of a working group in the Senate, bringing together the associations of local elected representatives and the senators to make proposals supposed to enrich the decentralization law promised by the government.

Senate working group enrich decentralisation law

On September 26, 2018, the Regions of France, the Assembly of French Departments and the Association of Mayors of France launched their "Marseilles appeal" to rethink relations between the State and local authorities. At the Congress of the Association of Mayors of France, Renaud Muselier, Dominique Bussereau and François Baroin had announced that the association "United Territories" would join forces with the Senate to produce a bill on decentralization, deconcentration and differentiation, thus taking up the watchword of "3D" of the government.

This morning, the same associations of local elected representatives presented their wishes to the Senate and President Larcher opened the ball by announcing the establishment "in the coming days", of a working group including the presidents of political groups of the Senate, the presidents of the Law Commission (Philippe Bas, senator LR) and of the delegation to local authorities (Jean-Marie Bockel, centrist senator). According to the President of the Senate, the aim of this legislative work will be to "reconnect with the true spirit of decentralization", he explained, taking up the word of Philippe Bas, president of the Law Commission in charge of this. text. This working group should therefore enrich the text which will be drawn up by the Law Commission and examined at first reading in the Senate as required by the Constitution, said Gérard Larcher. "We have a calendar" also made it clear to the President of the Senate, who agreed: "before the end of the semester, we will have a text".

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The Minister responsible for Relations with the Parliament repeated his "confidence" in the social partners to find solutions to ensure the short-term balance of the pension system. He also recalls that Parliament will play its full role and has denied any idea of ​​resorting to 49-3.

After its weekend gesture - the provisional withdrawal of the pivotal age for the period 2022-2027 in the bill - the government is now counting on the imagination of the social partners to find other solutions likely to ensure l short-term budgetary balance of the pension system. The room for maneuver is very narrow: the government does not want to touch the level of pensions, the employers categorically refuse any increase in contributions.

Does this mean that the pivotal age will return once the fundraising conference is completed at the end of April? Marc Fesneau assures this Monday, January 13 that the government was in good faith. "We cannot launch this debate and say that we are ready to dialogue and start by saying: in any case we will go to the pivotal age. From the start, the Prime Minister said that the pivotal age was open to discussion, "insists the Minister responsible for Relations with Parliament, in the program" Public hearing ", from Public Sénat in partnership with LCP and Le Figaro Live. "If we wanted to permanently set the pivotal age, we would not have removed the pivotal age. If we have temporarily withdrawn it, it is with the will that we find other solutions. "

Marc Fesneau notably "trusts" the social partners to put "measuring cocktails" on the table, as some unions envisage. And "find ways of compromise that are not compromises". “We don't have a totem around the pivotal age. Our obsession is to ensure that the pension system, to be credible, is funded, ”he repeats.

In April, "the Senate will be able to seize with budgetary elements"

True to its fundamentals, the government's discourse has therefore not changed much after 40 days of strike. Concerning the legislative calendar, the Prime Minister's letter to the social partners poses a problem: the funding conference, which will deliver its conclusions at the end of April, will telescope with the debate with the parliamentary debate. The National Assembly will have completed its first reading, the Senate will, at best, be right in the middle.

"Parliament can deliberate validly," reassures the minister responsible for managing the parliamentary agenda. "As for the Senate, the reading being at the end of April, the Senate will be able to seize with budgetary elements. As for the National Assembly, there will be a second reading. Probably: I do not see that there is a joint commission.