The pension reform project will be officially unveiled on Tuesday, January 10. The right says it is ready to vote under conditions. The unions are preparing to take to the streets.
On the side of the government as well as the unions, the countdown has begun. Last touch to the pension reform for the executive, preparation of the troops to demonstrate for the unions.
The pension bill will be unveiled on Tuesday January 10 by Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne. The last arbitrations with Emmanuel Macron took place on Friday at the Elysée. Between 64 and 65 years, it is the hypothesis of a postponement of the legal age from 62 to 64 years which has apparently been retained, according to the Parisian, with the extension of the contribution period. This postponement would take place at the rate of three months per generation to arrive at retirement at age 64 for people born from 1968, according to l’Opinion.
The government plans to implement its reform through an amended social security financing bill (PLFSSR) in order to be able to move quickly. The minimum retirement, long careers or the arduous nature of the trades might be part of the amendments which will be debated in the National Assembly from February 6 until the end of March. The executive wants the pension reform to come into force following the summer.
LR ready to vote for the reform
To be able to pass the reform, the government must have a majority. He will be able to count on the Republicans. The new boss of the right Eric Ciotti announces in the Sunday newspaper that his party will vote for pension reform. The conditions it set are met: departure at age 64 in 2032, coupled with the extension of the contribution period, minimum pension of €1,200 for current retirees and future retirees and taking into account long and difficult careers.
The boss of LR Eric Ciotti.
No to the postponement to 64 years old says the CFDT
Retire later? Out of the question for the CFDT. The secretary general of the CFDT Laurent Berger affirms that “the proposed age measure is the toughest of the last thirty years”. He describes the government’s project as “only accounting, dogmatic” and considers that “the age parameter is the most unfair and the most anti-redistributive”, in an interview with Le Parisien. If he recognizes that there is an imbalance, he ensures that the pay-as-you-go pension system is not threatened with disappearance.
Laurent Berger, the general secretary of the CFDT.
The unions are preparing for the showdown
The government knows it: its pension reform will lead many French people to demonstrate in the coming weeks. The unions will meet on Tuesday evening to set a common date. Even the CFDT is ready to participate. The CGT is already calling for a parade on Thursday, January 12. La Nupes, for its part, has planned to parade all over France on January 21st.
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Precisely, the LFI deputy from the Somme, draws up a rather alarmist observation of the situation in France. “We are coming out of two years of Covid crisis where the French are worn out, tired, exasperated. Behind, we have the war in Ukraine, wages which do not rise at the same time as prices”. He continues: “We have a president who is re-elected without momentum, without enthusiasm. (…) It is on this extremely narrow basis, on this non-existent social basis, that they intend to pass a reform once morest three quarters of French”. And to ask: “Do you really think that the priority today is the pension deficit by 2040?”, He wondered in the program “Quelle époque” on France 2 Saturday night.
The boss of the CFDT warns Elisabeth Borne: “Attention, Madam Prime Minister, today there is a lot of social tension, a lot of social difficulties, anxieties, conflictuality, a lot of negative feelings in the population”.
