Have the Republicans managed to impose all their criteria for the next pension reform? The answer will be given this Tuesday during a press conference by the Prime Minister, but the latest trends seem to confirm it. In fact, Elisabeth Borne should finally propose a reform that provides for a postponement of the legal retirement age to 64 years, compared to the current 62 years.
The executive put on the table for the first time a deferral until the age of 65. But it is the hypothesis of 64 years, with a rate of three more months per generation to reach that retirement age for people born after 1968, which is “privileged” by the government, according to information from Opinion, confirmed by sources concordant to BFMTV. Regarding the duration of contributions, it must not exceed 43 years.
Modalities that are close to the positions raised by several eminent republican members, whose support in the National Assembly is necessary to allow the vote on this reform, without going through 49.3.
The forgotten 65-year-old “red cloth”?
The LRs appear to have won their case firstly on the finally decided retirement age, but also on the pace at which it would be reached. The president of LR Éric Ciotti announced this Sunday in the JDD that he had asked the Prime Minister to “mitigate the brutality of the reform” which must, according to him, “be divided into two five-year terms, until 2032.”
“I think the legal retirement age could be set at the end of this period at 64, with an intermediate step at 63 in 2027,” he said.
The president of the LR group in the National Assembly, Olivier Marleix, had also indicated that he would not support a reform that included a postponement of the legal age of departure to 65, which he described as a “red cloth”, “too brutal”.
“We need to reform pensions, we are going step by step, 63 years at the end of the five-year period, one quarter a year, that would not be bad,” Olivier Marleix claimed to LCP last December.
Ditto for Bruno Retailleau, the head of the LR senators. “I have the impression that the government’s landing point will be the Senate’s proposal,” he told AFP after meeting with the Prime Minister, recalling that the Senate has been proposing a text for several years that plans to extend the retirement age to 64 years. .
A reconciliation of positions that should allow the government to obtain the votes of the LR. “We don’t want to please the government, but we can’t stop voting for something we’ve been talking about for years,” said a close friend of Eric Ciotti, who welcomes a “pretty good relationship with Borne.”
Towards a maximum duration of 43 years of contribution?
Side length of contributions, the LR could also have won. Olivier Marleix reportedly said Friday “that at some point, duration (of contributions) must take precedence over age,” according to the Parisianwhich specifies that the duration mentioned is 43 years.
This means that an employee, who had worked for 43 years, could retire without a discount, regardless of age. A point “still under discussion”, according to several relatives of Olivier Marleix, quoted by the newspaper.
However, the latest statements by Elisabeth Borne also seem to go in this direction. “We will not go beyond the 43 years of contributions provided for in the Touraine reform to have a full pension,” the prime minister told Franceinfo on Tuesday.
The text examined in the Council of Ministers on January 23
Republicans also advocate that current retirees receive no less than 85% of the minimum wage, a change the government currently plans only for future retirees. This proposal is supported by some members of the majority, and the government does not exclude the study, according to our information.
After its presentation to the press on Tuesday, the text will be examined by the Council of Ministers on January 23, but the unions, which meet on Tuesday night, plan to mobilize before that date, while on the left the Nupes holds a meeting. on January 10 and 17. and that LFI demonstrates on the 21st.
The bill must go through commission in the National Assembly as of January 30, and in the Chamber on February 6, for two weeks, according to parliamentary sources.
Source: BFM TV
