The issue of long careers in the pension reform bill remains a major concern in the Republican camp. in the columns of Parisian This Saturday, the leader of LR repeats that “he wants to vote for a pension reform, because it is necessary.” However, in the government project, “there are still additional advances to be made, essential for the balance and fairness of the text”, believes Eric Ciotti.
“I am thinking in particular of the issue of long careers (…) In this reform, it is those who started working earlier who must contribute longer. Therefore, we have indicated that those who enroll in this framework, having started before the age of 21, you will be able to retire after 43 annuities, before the legal retirement age”, he indicates.
And to underline: “That is why I went to see the Prime Minister with the president of the LR group, Olivier Marleix, on Wednesday. I am very confident in our ability to obtain satisfaction on this essential point.”
“Centre Question”
If the Republicans are satisfied on this point, says Eric Ciotti, the government project “will obtain a very large majority” among the LR. It is “a central issue that will largely determine my vote,” Haut-Rhin MP Raphaël Schellenberger said on BFMTV on Friday. LR executive vice president Aurélien Pradié has also vowed to vote for the reform if his party’s amendments are taken up “to the comma.”
“If Élisabeth Borne knows how to listen to the relevant proposals that we make, it will not be necessary to use the 49.3”, Eric Ciotti bluntly slips to the Parisian.
The prime minister remained vague: “We will have this debate” of long races but “without losing sight of the objective” of financial balance in the system. However, the measure demanded by LR “has a cost of about 2,000 million”, according to the speaker of the Renaissance reform, Stéphanie Rist.
Source: BFM TV
