The deputies enter the last kilometer of the marathon of the examination of the pension reform. We will have to do it in a sprint as there is still work to be done before tackling the key measure on postponing the age. Only two articles, out of the twenty included in the bill, have so far been voted on.
AT midnight and wherever the debates on Emmanuel Macron’s flagship reform are, the curtain will fall in the National Assembly and the text will go to the Senate, whether or not the deputies have had time to discuss the article. 7, including the much decried measure of the postponement of the retirement age from 62 to 64 years.
More than 3,000 amendments remain to be discussed before this article 7, including a good part coming from the Insoumis. The left alliance Nupes is divided on the advisability of withdrawing them, as pressed by the unions which organized a fifth day of mobilization on Thursday.
“Do not rush to Article 7” (Jean-Luc Mélenchon)
In the hemicycle, La France insoumise (LFI) withdrew on Wednesday “ more than a thousand “of amendments and the socialists” 90% of theirs “. On Thursday, the Communists did the same with 350 of their own amendments.
But Thursday evening the leader of LFI Jean-Luc Mélenchon judged this withdrawal “ incomprehensible » and called on the deputies not to « precipitate » to article 7. « Hurry to get beat ? “, he asked on Twitter, attracting the wrath of the Minister of Public Accounts, Gabriel Attal, who denounced a “ seesaw ” and one ” confession ” to do “drag the debates. »
What relaunch the reproaches on the left. ” Why don’t you open additional debates? “, launched the Insoumis Manuel Bompard. ” If you wanted section 7 to be considered, you had the option of putting it first in the law “, added the ecologist Sandrine Rousseau.
The day promises to be lively. Especially since this might be the first time that the reading of a text is interrupted because the constitutional deadline will have been reached. ” It’s going to be sports », Estimates a Renaissance elected official according to whom « the issue is who will impose his story? LFI by saying that we purposely do not go to the end of the text, or us? »
Republicans blow hot and cold
This elected official, who does not despair of reaching article 7, recalls that the deletion amendments coming from the left and from some Republican (LR) deputies would be the first to be examined: “ to reject them would amount to a hollow adoption “, he imagines.
The Republicans themselves, who contributed Wednesday to the rejection of ” l’index seniors », Blow hot and cold, some laying down conditions on long careers to support the reform.
Quarrel of figures around the minimum pension
On Thursday, PS deputy Jérôme Guedj asked Social Security for documents and tables of figures on the consequences of the pension reform. He had just made a point of order to ask the Minister of Labor to support his figures on the minimum pension, by calling into question the ” sincerity » advanced data. ” We find answers neither in the impact study made by the government, nor in the returns of the ministers ” despite ” our repeated requests “, had explained earlier to AFP the deputy, who went in the morning to the Directorate of Social Security (DSS), which depends on several ministries.
On the number given by the Minister of Labor on Wednesday of 40,000 future retirees who will pass the milestone of 85% of the minimum wage each year, he might not cross-check this data. ” The DSS (social security department, editor’s note) indicates that 13,289 people from the 1962 generation, liquidating their retirement in 2024, will benefit from a gain of 100 euros, “i.e. the maximum revaluation”, said the socialist. ” But they will be 40,000 concerned for the 1972 generation “retorted the minister.
A reform that can hide another
As soon as the draft law on pensions was presented at the beginning of January, the Minister of Labor Olivier Dussopt mentioned the upcoming project of “ the modernization of family rights ».
Behind this expression, there is an overhaul of several mechanisms, the cost of which exceeds 20 billion euros per year, three-quarters for the benefit of women: increased pension for large families, early departures, quarters for ” stay-at-home parents “, or under maternity.
Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne once more underlined last week the difference “ between employees in the private sector with a child who are entitled to eight terms and those in the public service who are entitled to two ». « The system no longer corresponds to the professional reality of women “, insisted the Prime Minister, pointing” the weaknesses of devices imagined fifty years ago “, when the mothers ” stopped working ».
AT As women’s careers lengthen, these trimesters originally conceived as a ” compensation ” become ” less useful and less relevant “, even if they keep ” obviously an interest for those who have choppy careers “Explained the Minister of Labor on Monday on franceinfo.
Olivier Dussopt wants to take advantage of this to “ put back on the table ” also the file of survivors’ pensions, source of ” quite terrible inequalities ” between the “ thirteen diets ” in force. Variable conditions of age, resources, duration of marriage, non-remarriage, not to mention the different calculation methods… Three years ago, this thicket of standards was to be replaced by a single rule: guaranteeing the spouse survivor 70% of the amount of the couple’s pensions.
(With AFP)
