“This desire to raise the retirement age is doubly unfair.” Another statement from an elected official from the New Ecological and Social Popular Union (Nupes)? No, these statements, which date from 2010, are from Olivier Dussopt, then a PS deputy, but today Labor Minister, in the front line to defend the reform of executive pensions. It will be presented to the French on January 10 and should consist, in particular, of extending the legal age of departure to 64 or 65 years.
2010 is a different time, but it seems similar to the present on certain points: there too, for François Fillon’s government, it is about reforming the pension system – this will lead to a gradual extension of the legal retirement age from 60 to 62 years There too, the opposition made its disapproval known. However, there is a notable difference: Olivier Dussopt is part of the second camp.
“Smoke Screens”
First elected deputy for the Ardèche in 2007, he sits on the Socialist seats. On May 4, during questions to the government, the parliamentarian took the floor and challenged Éric Woerth, then Minister of Labor. As he speaks, consultations with the social partners continue and the exact content of the bill has yet to be presented.
“He has already decided the axes of his reform,” accuses Olivier Dussopt, however, based on “information from the Élysée,” “taken by the press.”
He criticizes the “Government and the Élysée”, which “plan to gradually raise the legal retirement age from 60 to 63 years by 2030”.
Proof, according to him, that the “discussions they are having today are just alibis and smoke screens” so that the government “masks [ses] intentions until the last moment”. The Ardéchois thus denounces “a farce designed to make you believe that you have other priorities than those that the Medef blows you and a contempt for the proposals made by the other social interlocutors that you finally receive without hearing or hearing them.”
“Unfair”
At the time, for Olivier Dussopt, “this wish to increase the retirement age is doubly unfair.” First, because it “immediately rules out the search for other recipes”, such as “the contribution of all income”. “Between the tax loopholes and the shield of the same name, a lot could be done so that the effort is not only from the employees,” he adds. A resolutely left-wing observation that recalls the positions of the Nupes.
So, he points out, this reform is “also unfair, because it will take the effort to the generations born after 1970”, also already affected by “precariousness” and “historic unemployment”.
In response, Eric Woerth seeks to show that the government is listening, an echo of the present, once again. “We talked a lot”, said the minister in particular, before recounting: “I received Martine Aubry, Marie-Georges Buffet, François Bayrou, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, I received Jean-Michel Baylet a moment ago. J received Jean-Marie Le Pen “.“ Nothing is decided, nothing is arbitrated ”, he assures.
Another moment. Since then, Olivier Dussopt and Éric Woerth have left their respective formations to join the presidential field.
Source: BFM TV
