The government’s pension reform “is neither fair, nor urgent, nor necessary,” said the leader of the PS deputies, Boris Vallaud, after a meeting on Monday with Elisabeth Borne on this issue.
Boris Vallaud and his counterpart in the Senate Patrick Kanner were the last parliamentarians to exchange in Matignon with the prime minister, who received each of the political groups since Thursday.
Labor Minister Olivier Dussopt, who participated in the meetings, “mentioned between 12 and 15 million euros of additional deficit for 2027. Compared to the 345 billion euros already spent on pensions, it is quite surmountable if we play to greater national solidarity. Patrick Kanner said.
“And no effort is asked of the richest of our fellow citizens who have been the greatest beneficiaries of the previous five-year period,” he lamented.
The PS deplores the “efforts” requested “from the most modest”
The Government, which plans to gradually raise the retirement age to 65, “proposes reducing the size of the cake and dividing it among a greater number” and it is “from the most modest that we are asking for efforts with fewer rights,” he added Boris Vallaud, denouncing the “fetishism” of the government in terms of “lower taxes for the richest”.
“Tax is not a dirty word,” added Patrick Kanner, judging by this “possibility” of maintaining retirement at age 62.
Right and majority on one side, left on the other: the leaders of the group maintained their positions on this reform during these discussions, in a context of growing social tensions.
The executive aims at the approval of a bill “before the end of winter”, which will be “probably the first text presented to the Council of Ministers” at the beginning of 2023, announced Monday the Minister of Relations with Parliament, Franck Riester, also present at the meetings.
Source: BFM TV
