A position that has a bad effect when Emmanuel Macron called on his majority to block 3 days from the first union mobilization. Barbara Pompili, former minister for the Ecological Transition of Jean Castex, says that she opposes the pension reform as presented last Tuesday by the prime minister.
“At this point, if I had to vote now, I couldn’t vote for,” former Europe-Écologie-Les-Verts, who joined Emmanuel Macron in 2017, told BFMTV.com.
The need for “remedial measures”
At the head of In common, a satellite party of the majority that distanced itself from the Renaissance last summer, Barbara Pompili points out “the social injustices” caused by the reform.
The member of the Somme evokes, for example, the case of people who started working at the age of 18 and who can now leave with a full pension after having contributed for 43 years. With the reform, they must contribute one more year to aspire to leave at full capacity. More generally, long careers are extended, except for workers who started before the age of 16.
“The choice to delay the retirement age requires very ambitious corrective measures,” the elected official of the Somme further advances, wondering if the government could not “have done the opposite.”
If the reform is approved, the legal retirement age will increase to 64 years in 2030, compared to the current 62, at a rate of three more months per year. To benefit from a full pension, you must also have contributed for 43 years from 2027, instead of 2035 as provided for in the Touraine reform adopted in 2013.
Other macronista deputies could vote against
As for long careers, the Government has also promised an “adapted” system, “so that no one who has started working early is forced to work from the age of 44”, in the words of Élisabeth Borne.
Three other Renaissance deputies are members of In Common: Cécile Rilhac, Stella Dupont and Mirelle Clapot. Faced with a relative majority, the government will not be able to do without the votes of its own troops to vote on its text, which will reach the National Assembly on February 6, unless it uses the constitutional weapon of 49.3.
“We have not yet decided our final position and we refuse to be in the position. We want to find solutions”, still judges Barbara Pompili, who considers herself “a good member of the majority”.
In common, proposals to change the pension reform will be announced this Tuesday night.
Source: BFM TV
