Before even knowing the details of the pension reform, announced Tuesday, January 10 by Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne, the left is on the war foot. All nuances combined, she promises to engage a Homeric fight against the project defended by Emmanuel Macron. Fire therefore on “working longer” to try to stem the return of the deficit.
associating the fight in Parliament from February and street demonstrations in support of unions, unanimously hostile to the project, it is positioned as a defenseman of the weakest, is working to reactivate the figure of the “president of the rich “And makes the Head of State the inventor of a” regressive tax weighing exclusively on the least qualified “.
The formula, advanced by economist Thomas Piketty in his last column published in MO12345lemonde, is likely to flourish in the coming weeks and to place the government on the defensive. Except to reveal a derogatory device for long powerfully corrector careers, it will, in fact, find it difficult to deny that the impact of its reform, which consists in repelling the legal age of retirement at 64, Will be particularly felt by those who started working early, employees and workers in particular. It is on the defense of the popular electorate that all the opponents of Emmanuel Macron now concentrate: the left, the national rally and even a part of the Les Républicains deputies.
The promise to protect the weakest is doubled, on the left, from the desire to make them dream. The restoration of retirement at 60, buried by years of government culture, is again on everyone’s lips. He appeared in the presidential project of the communist Fabien Roussel and the “rebellious” Jean-Luc Mélenchon. It was registered, in May 2022, in the legislative project of the new Ecological and Social People’s Popular Union (Nuts).
Symbolic weight
The socialist Olivier Faure and the ecologist Marine Tondelier also take it back on their own, aware of the symbolic weight of this measure which had been carried by the candidate Mitterrand and implemented under his aegis, a year after his victory at the ‘Presidential election of 1981. The order of March 26, 1982 had opened the possibility for employees aged 60 who wanted to benefit from a full retirement pension as soon as they justified a duration of insurance at least 150 quarters. Until then had to wait 65 years.
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