OCTOBER 8, 2025 2:18 PM CET
BY CLEA CAULCUTTPARIS — France’s Socialists emerged from high-level talks on Wednesday saying there was no agreement on a left-winger becoming the next prime minister, despite speculation that this could be French President Emmanuel Macron’s next move.

The head of the Socialist Party, Olivier Faure, said his party had not received “assurances” from outgoing PM Sébastien Lecornu that Macron would agree to suspend his flagship pensions reforms during talks on finding a way out of the political crisis engulfing France.

“We received no assurances that the suspension [of the pensions reform] would be real,” Faure told reporters after the talks. Lecornu “simply took notes,” he added. The suspension of the deeply unpopular pensions reform, which raises the legal age of retirement to 64 from 62, is a key demand of the left.


https://www.politico.eu/article/fran...olivier-faure/