Barely announced, already hotly contested. With its reform of the pension system, the Executive defends the reduction of the legal retirement age to 64 years by 2030, compared to the current 62. To benefit from a full pension, it would also be necessary to have worked 43 years from 2027, instead of 2035 as provided for in the Touraine reform.
Options often very different from those defended by the opposition. We summarize what each political party thinks of the reform and what it proposes a few hours after a strike that the unions hope will be massive.
rebel france
What it says about reform
Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s movement is fiercely opposed to the government project. The former presidential candidate has repeatedly criticized an “expensive and cruel” reform, which would create the return of “a situation like that of 1910” for the workers of 2022. In addition to the demonstrations this Thursday, La France insoumise also supports a march on 21 January against the extension of the retirement age.
The rebel deputies are preparing for an intense parliamentary battle: Mathilde Panot, the head of the LFI group in the Assembly, has already warned that her 73 elected officials could each present 1,000 amendments to counter the text.
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“We are in favor of a return to retirement at 60 years and 40 annuities,” Manuel Bompard said on BFMTV on January 3, a situation comparable to the regime that existed in the 1990s. La France’s presidential program insoumise also calls the RSA to take into account to validate quarters and to index the amount of pensions to salaries.
Europe-Ecology-The Greens (EE-LV)
What they say about the reform
Marine Tondelier, the new patron of environmentalists, denounced a reform that “always attacks the weakest.” This elected representative from Hénin-Beaumont (Pas-de-Calais) also denounced a lowering of the “ideological” and “antisocial” starting age, at the “service of a” “favored” class.
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Yannick Jadot, the environmentalist presidential candidate, defended during the campaign the maintenance of the legal exit age at 62 years. The MEP also advocated “reintegration difficulties, which would allow many people to leave at the age of 60 or earlier” in France info last January.
Socialist Party (PS)
asked in LaunchingOlivier Faure, the head of the PS, accused Emmanuel Macron of wanting to launch “a tax on the lives of those who started working early, had the most difficult jobs and the lowest life expectancy” by pushing back the legal retirement age.
The party of the rose proposes a return to retirement at 60 years, without wanting to touch the contribution period that is currently 43 years to go out at full capacity. The movement also calls for greater consideration of the hardships without seeing the pension reform as an economic “emergency”, contrary to what the Executive defends.
communist party
Fabien Roussel denounced on BFMTV a “harsh, extremely violent reform” that will mainly affect “workers” and “low-skilled men and women.” To demonstrate his opposition, the head of the Communist Party called on the French to “go out” this Thursday during the first day of the strike.
The former presidential candidate defends the return to retirement at age 60 guaranteed at a full rate for an entire career. He still wants studies, periods of sickness and unemployment to trigger contributions. He believes the law should continue to allow early retirement for people in difficult jobs or long careers.
National Rally (RN)
Jordan Bardella, the new head of RN, denounced on BFMTV “a social war waged against millions of French people.” Marine Le Pen lashed out on our antenna “a scam” that she was going to “repel with all possible weapons.”
The head of the RN deputies has evolved in recent years on the issue of pensions. During the 2022 campaign, he defended the return to retirement at age 60 for people who entered working life between the ages of 17 and 20. For the French who entered working life between the ages of 20 and 24, the former candidate provided for a full-rate retirement between 40 and 42 years of contribution.
For those who start working from the age of 25, his presidential project provided for at least 42 years of contributions to benefit from a full pension without discount. In 2017, Marine Le Pen defended the return of retirement at 60 for everyone.
The Republicans (LR)
The right is very divided on the convenience of this reform. A dozen elected Republicans, such as Aurélien Pradié, do not want to vote for the pension reform as it stands, pointing in particular to the issue of long careers. The law “is content to have been heard”, it has notify the press Olivier Marleixthe patron of deputies LR.
Valérie Pécresse defended during the presidential campaign the raising of the legal retirement age to 65 years. The Senate, with a right-wing majority, has voted on her side for several years, the postponement to 64 years, today defended by the executive.
Source: BFM TV
