The pensions "conclave" reserves a last-chance meeting for June 23

There came a time on the evening of Tuesday, June 17, when François Bayrou's pension "conclave" was thought to be dead and buried, with a declaration of failure. But the Prime Minister's creation, launched in February to allow social actors to revise the 2023 reform while achieving financial balance for the pension system by 2030, is still moving. At least until Monday, June 23, the date of what should, this time, be the real final session.

It was Jean-Jacques Marette, the former general director of supplementary pensions at Agirc-Arrco, a man well-versed in social negotiations, who proposed what Christelle Thieffine, the leader of the CFE-CGC, calls the "last chance operation" . In concrete terms, this will involve working on a text, drafted by Jean-Jacques Marette's team, attempting to achieve a final synthesis on the most crucial subjects of the discussion, which are arduousness, retirement age and the financing of the scheme. Or simply acknowledging the impossibility of an agreement.

If failure seemed likely, it was because the union reports reaching the press throughout Tuesday reported a complete blockade of discussions by the employers, accused by Christelle Thieffine of wanting to "plant the negotiations", but without taking responsibility for it - in other words, waiting for the unions to slam the door.

We were there, absorbing good