The leader of the LR senators, Bruno Retailleau, an unsuccessful candidate for the party’s presidency, estimated on Tuesday that the latter would sink “into the quicksand of denial” if it did not vote for the postponement of the legal retirement age wanted by the government.
The pension reform is “an essential issue for the country but it is also a test of the truth for the right (…). Are we going to defend what we have always defended? Or are we going to slip into the sands of denial? ?” asks Bruno Retailleau in a forum at the figaro.
LR, “a little protest party”?
Rejecting a simple extension of the contribution period, which according to him would sacrifice the purchasing power of retirees, he sees the postponement of age as “the fairest option” but also “the most generous” because it makes it possible to finance, in particular, an increase in the pension minimum to 1200 euros for a complete race.
The new head of LR, the deputy of the Maritime Alps Éric Ciotti, defends a synthesis, giving the choice between “increasing the duration of the contribution or the exit age”.
For the president of the LR senators, “the right has, therefore, two possibilities. Or show the French that it has learned the lessons of its past failures and that it is ready to propose a solid and credible project (…). It acts as if it has become a small protest party, good enough to make up for it with political combinations of circumstances.”
Concerned about “reuniting (his) political family”, Bruno Retailleau assures that it cannot be built “to the detriment of our convictions and our identity: the right to agit-prop and demagogy, that is not right” and we must not “fight against macronism by imitating its worst defects”.
Source: BFM TV
