If he says he joins the LR right on this “objective”, the executive ensures favoring “consultation” before proposing a bill in January.
Le Monde
Taking advantage of the debates relating to the 2023 Social Security finance bill, the Senate, dominated by the right, voted on Saturday a pension reform providing for the legal age at 64, and this against the ‘Opinion of the Government which ensures that consultation before presenting its own reform in January 2023.
It is through an amendment to the 2023 Society budget project that the rapporteur of the old age branch, René-Paul Savary (LR), submitted the senators a reform mechanism.
adopted by 195 votes for, 130 against and 19 abstentions, this amendment first proposes the establishment of a “national convention” responsible for formulating measures for a return to balance, while taking in Strengthening account, long careers and employment of seniors. In the event of failure, it provides for an acceleration of the Touraine reform lengthening the duration of the subscription, and the postponement to 64 years of the legal retirement age from the 1967 generation. Measures to which Emmanuel Macron S ‘ was said to be “open”.
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Greeting the “coherence” of Mr. Savary from one year to another, the Minister of Solidarity Jean-Christophe Combe assured joining him “on the objectives”. But “we made the choice of consultation and a bill in January, not a measure in a social security financing bill”, he opposed.
The majority of Renaissance RDPI came to support the minister, stressing that “even the CGT returns to the discussion table, things are advancing” with the government, which opened consultation in early October with unions and employers. But “it is time to act” in view of the “deficit of the old age branch so important”, hammered the general rapporteur Elisabeth Doineau. A few centrists, allies of the majority, however abstained, such as Jean-Marie Vanlerenberghe (Modem) who thinks that the amendment goes “a little far” and that “this reform must be accepted socially and politically”.
The left has spoken out against the amendment, judging that “there is no danger on the future of the system” according to communists and environmentalists, and that the proposed reform would be “an injustice Incredible “for those close to the retirement threshold, according to the socialists.
Whatever happens, the government may not ultimately retain this amendment, by the use of the constitutional weapon of the 49.3 before the Assembly, which allows it to choose the text on which it engages its responsibility. “We do not have an illusion,” admitted Philippe Mouiller (LR). “We needed this political message” and “from our position, we are ready to discuss,” he said to the Minister.