decisive voices. In order to promote its pension reform avoiding recourse to article 49-3 of the Constitution, the Government hopes to obtain firm support from the Republican deputies in the Assembly. In early January, the head of the rue Vaugirard party, Eric Ciotti, said he was ready “to vote for a fair reform that will save our pay-as-you-go pension system.”
A positive sign for the majority that needs to get some forty votes from among the 62 right-wing deputies for the reform to be approved. But nothing is done. Currently, between 15 and 20 parliamentarians from the LR group say they do not want to vote on the government’s text. This is particularly the case for the party’s number 2, Aurélien Pradié, who still considers the government’s project unfair, in particular for the French who started working early.
The party’s executive vice-president is also at the origin of an amendment on this issue, denouncing the terms of the reform that could potentially see certain people eligible for the long-career scheme to contribute for 44 years, instead of the current 43.
LRs claim 43 years for all
For LR deputies opposed to the text, this is the main point of tension. Especially since Elisabeth Borne promised at the beginning of January that the Government “will not go beyond 43 years of contributions to have a full pension.” However, the text finally provides that a person who started working between the ages of 18 and 20 may claim a full pension at age 62 (compared to 60 at the earliest today), provided they have validated four or five quarters (according to the month of birth) before the end of the year of your 20th birthday. This could well force some to work for 44 years.
For example, a person born in 1973 who would have started working at age 18 had to have contributed a minimum of 43 years up to now (including 4 or 5 quarters before age 20) to aspire to leave with a full pension at 20 years. 61. years old. Under the new system, she will have to contribute one more year to turn 62. In the same way, a person who started working during the year of her twentieth birthday cannot leave it before the age of 62, so she must continue her career until the new legal age, that is, 64 years. This also corresponds to 44 annual contributions.
Unacceptable for the Republicans whose amendment signed by all the deputies of the group proposes to allow anyone who has contributed at least a quarter before turning 21 to retire once they have validated their 43 years of contributions.
The government refuses to back down at age 44
At the moment, the Government opposes this relaxation, which could cost between 2,000 and 3,000 million euros. “We are open to all enrichments”, but “it is not our objective” to renounce the “found balances”, “including the one that makes those who started working at 20 years old retire at 64 years old”, he reacted this Wednesday Olivier Veran.
Le porte-parole du gouvernement a également précisé that “l’égalité de durée de cotisation ne s’entend pas dans un sistème de financing de retraites qui repose à la fois sur un nombre d’années cotisées et sur un âge de départ à la retired”.
And to conclude: “I also remember for the record that the age in retirement practice […] it is 63.3 years because a large number of French people contribute more to have a better level of retirement pension. I’m not sure it will change much from that point of view,” but “it may come at a cost.”
Source: BFM TV
