For Laurent Berger, Borne offers “a patch” on long careers
The announcement on long careers made by Elisabeth Borne did not convince Laurent Berger. On France Inter, France Télévision and Le Monde, the general secretary of the CFDT declared that the proposal of the Prime Minister was a simple “patch” and “does not respond to the concern of millions of workers”.
Laurent Berger asks to “put the work back on the job by going back to the idea of the contribution period” which is, according to him, “the fairest criterion”.
Xavier Bertrand sets three conditions to support the reform
Xavier Bertrand, guest of BFM Politique this Sunday, sets three conditions to support pension reform.
The first is to respect the principle of 43 annuities, which allow retirement before age 64. The second is to put an end to special diets “an injustice”. And the last is to come back to the “two-level injustice” suffered by women so that they retire “at 65 and not 67”.
Read more in our article here.
“He puts our country in danger”, Ruffin accuses Macron of “secession with the nation”
The chosen one does not hold back his blows. In the columns of Releasethe deputy of the Somme is questioned on the pension reform, the debates on which will begin this Monday in the National Assembly, and on its direct consequences on French society.
According to him, the current situation is an extension of a “long democratic crisis, at least since 2005.”
“People are like, ‘What good is democracy?’ This reform makes matters worse. We are witnessing, before our eyes, a President of the Republic who is seceding from the nation. He is putting our country in danger”, he points out.
In his opinion, the pension reform is for Emmanuel Macron, “a marker of his power, over the bodies and over the social body.”
“We have hospitals in tatters, a school with black hussars of the Republic recruited in job dating, an ecological transformation to operate, and they block the country for 0.1 point of GDP! It’s pointless…”, he denounces.
For Xavier Bertrand, Elisabeth Borne’s concession on long careers “is a trompe-l’oeil response”
For Xavier Bertrand, guest of BFM Politique this Sunday, Elisabeth Borne’s concession on pension reform, concerning the development of long careers, “is a sham answer”:
“For a majority of LR deputies, for many LR senators, for many French people, a principle must be respected: 43 annuities, you retire even before you are 64.”
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For Antoine Léaument, “we should look at other methods of financing”
Invited on BFMTV this Sunday morning, NUPES deputy Antoine Léaument returned to the concessions made by Elisabeth Borne in an attempt to obtain the votes of the LRs which would give him a majority in the National Assembly and would allow the pension reform to pass. .
“People are asking for the withdrawal of this pension reform, not whether we are making marginal adjustments,” he said.
According to the elected official, there are other methods of financing the pension system, but which were all refused by the majority in the Social Affairs Committee.
“There is a small gene from the Macronist deputies, because alternative methods of financing, which could obtain four times the savings of this reform, have been postponed each time”, he adds, denouncing “an ideological will” and ” a willingness to open up with those who already agree.”
“As it is, it’s not okay”, an LR deputy castigates “the outstretched finger” by Borne to his party
Asked shortly before midday on BFMTV, the LR deputy for Moselle Fabien Di Philippo assures him, despite Elisabeth Borne’s concession on long careers, “his position does not change.”
“This morning I am not disconnecting this reform from a global context. I see that the Prime Minister is trying to reach out, I would not say her hand but a finger to save her reform, but we when we call for help in our territories which are left aside by the energy aid systems, we do not have the same return”, he says.
According to him, the guarantees concerning long careers are not good. “We drew a number of red lines from the start of the debate on priority to the duration of careers,” he recalls.
However, he assures that in case of agreement, he would be ready to vote on the text.
“We were elected as opposition MPs, which is not giving a blank check to the government’s project but stretching it in the direction of our values. When we succeed in putting forward our points of view, we can vote them. We are not an opposition in principle, “he assures.
For Olivier Véran, “we are collective winners”
The government spokesman was on the set of C news to defend the pension reform. “Wherever we gain support, where we manage to better understand the text of the law that we are carrying and wherever we consider that from the discussion is born a form of truth, I think that we are collective winners. There is no no losers in this story”.
And for him, the importance remains the text, apart from any opposition. “We will vote on amendments which come from the majority and the opposition. We want to improve this text. I am convinced that the French are satisfied that there is not an absolute majority in parliament”.
On the other hand, Oliver Véran tackled the attitude of Nupes. “The only thing we fear, (…) is that we will be deprived of a quality debate in the National Assembly because of the stupid and wicked obstruction of the Nupes. When you table 18,000 amendments on a text of the law, it’s like when you throw tomato soup on a blackboard. It’s useless and it ridicules those who do it. When you cling to your role as parliamentarians, you table useful amendments , essential, we defend the balls thoroughly without letting anything go”.
Borne’s step towards Les Républicains did not convince Pierre-Henri Dumont
Pierre-Henri Dumont, deputy Les Républicains” for Pas-de-Calais, denounces Elisabeth Borne’s gesture on long careers. Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne announced to the JDD that people who started working between the ages of 20 and 21 will be able to retire at 63, not 64, thinking that they will respond favorably to the request of the LR deputies.
But for Pierre-Henri Dumont this small gesture made on long careers is a gesture that does not allow all those who do not fit into the long career device not to have to contribute 44, 45, 46 annuities. “To be in a long career scheme, you must have contributed before age X or Y – there it goes back 20 to 21 years – at least 5 quarters. Yes, but 5 quarters at minimum wage. But when you are an apprentice, for example, you are not up to minimum wage, especially when you are under 18”. And he adds: “The problem with this reform is that it is a small reform, it is a reform. It was necessary to make an ambitious reform”.
On the ground, the deputies of the majority are struggling to convince
While this Monday begins the debates in the National Assembly with regard to the pension reform, the deputies stamped Renaissance have a hard time convincing on the ground.
Accustomed to television sets, the majority MP, Nadia Hai, is also active in the constituency where she wants to explain the much-contested reform.
Find out how the elected representative tries to convince on the ground
The sacred union of unions before two new days of mobilization
On the side of the opposition to the pension reform, the determination is not weakening, quite the contrary.
After two days of strikes and demonstrations, on January 19 and 31, the last of which exceeded the 2010 participation record, the intersyndicale announced two new days of action at a closer pace, on Tuesday 7 and Saturday 11 FEBRUARY.
“We must amplify” the mobilization, urged on France 2 Thursday the secretary general of the CFDT, Laurent Berger.
The unions, however, remain cautious about their chances of matching Tuesday’s mobilization (1.27 million demonstrators according to the police, more than 2.5 million according to the organizers): the school holidays began on Saturday for zone A and the opponents to the reform could choose one or the other of the two dates.
Weakened, Olivier Dussopt retains the confidence of Matignon
Pinned by the National Financial Prosecutor’s Office (PNF) which retained the offense of “favoritism” for a future trial against the Minister of Labor, the latter retains “all the confidence” of Matignon before decisive days for the reform of the retreats.
The timing is not ideal, two days before the big explanation at the National Assembly. But the minister was not really surprised by the Mediapart article on Friday: his lawyer had received on January 23 the summary of the National Financial Prosecutor’s Office, which accuses him of “favoritism” in a public contract signed in 2009 with Saur , a water treatment group, when Olivier Dussopt was mayor of Annonay (Ardèche).
Regarding the confidence of the Prime Minister, “she does not really have a choice”, judge to AFP the opponent PS Jérôme Guedj.
Elisabeth Borne says she “will move” on the subject of long careers
Nearby JDDand in response to an interview given to Parisian by the leader of the LR Éric Ciotti, the Prime Minister said she was ready to make concessions, under pressure from the right.
Without calling into question the cardinal measure of the reform, the raising of the retirement age from 62 to 64, the Prime Minister assures her “we are going to move by extending the long career system to those who have started to work between the ages of 20 and 21”, which will allow them to “leave at 63.
Find Elisabeth Borne’s announcements on BFMTV.com