The deputies seize this Monday the pension reform project, which provides in particular for a reduction in the legal exit age to 64 years, compared to the current 62 years. After very tough discussions in the Social Affairs Committee, several elected representatives of the presidential majority will come out to defend the text. The oppositions will seek to add points on their side. Here are the main faces that will animate the debates in the chamber.
• Stephanie Rist
Very discreet, this Renaissance deputy from Loiret is the rapporteur of the text for the presidential majority. Until now, this rheumatologist has played the roundness card with the oppositions.
“When you have more than one in two people who don’t feel good about their job, obviously if you tell them ‘we’re going to have to work two more years,’ it’s very brutal,” he acknowledged Thursday. .
The rapporteur says that she wants to avoid resorting to 49.3 on this text: “she really hopes that we can get to the end” during the debates in the chamber, while three days of examination in committee did not allow us to go beyond the first two articles. of the text – containing twenty in all. The deputies must thus examine some 20,000 amendments before February 17 at midnight.
• Fadila Khattabi
This former member of the Socialist Party, later transferred to the Macronist fold in 2017, is president of the Social Affairs Commission. It was she who led the debates for three days last week in this body. Faced with this ordeal, she explained to France Inter that this pension reform, “we do not do it lightly, we do it because we are responsible to the French.” She advanced as an “objective” the safeguarding of “our pension system that is based on intergenerational solidarity.”
During committee discussions, the Côte d’Or member had tense exchanges. We have regularly seen him rephrase his colleagues and, above all, raise his voice against La France insoumise. A lively exchange with Rachel Kéké, during which he made fun of Jean-Luc Mélenchon, could set the tone for his speeches in the chamber.
Like Barbara Pompili, Patrick Vignal is one of the few members of the majority who does not want to vote for reform as it is. “If it doesn’t change, I won’t pass this law,” he announced in mid-January.
“On the other hand, if I vote against, I’m leaving the group,” he said.
The deputy for Hérault, a former member of the Socialist Party, wants a project that is not “coercive” but “incentivising” and calls for “improving the text”. In particular, he calls for measures for the employment of older people. “How can we extend the contribution period of the elderly when we know that many times, in large companies, they are given an exit ticket. They stay two years in search of employment and retire?” He questioned.
• Rachel Keke
Together with Mathilde Panot and François Ruffin, Rachel Kéké, chosen in June under the label La France insoumise, will be one of the speakers for the LFI group. She wants to focus on the issue of women. The issue of hardships, career cuts and the minimum pension of 1,200 euros should also occupy her interventions. Rachel Kéké has already described them several times as “conflicts”.
The elected representative of Seine-Saint-Denis has already distinguished himself by several interventions in the Committee on Social Affairs, during which he accused the majority of “contempt for the elderly, women, the disabled”. “Have you made 40 beds yet?” Have you done the cleaning yet?” she asked, referring to her experience as a waitress at the Ibis des Batignolles hotel in the 17th arrondissement of Paris.
• Hadrien Clouet, LFI Employment Specialist
Hadrien Clouet, a 31-year-old rebel MP, is one of the leaders of his party on pension reform. This doctoral student in sociology, a specialist in employment and work, has previously stood out as one of the main speakers in his group during the review of the unemployment insurance reform.
With some 13,000 amendments presented by LFI, the elected representative of Haute-Garonne assures that he does not want to “slow down the debates” but rather “force the government to explain itself in each article of its bill.”
The communist deputy from Bouches-du-Rhône will lead his group to oppose the executive’s project, along with his colleagues Sébastien Jumel and Yannick Monnet.
Even before the debates began, Pierre Dharéville stood out during Olivier Dussopt’s hearing in the Committee on Social Affairs. The elected official told the Minister of Labor:
“You’re in a bad position, I don’t understand what you’re still doing there… You have to come back with your reform under your arm.”
• Veronique Louwagie
An LR deputy since 2012, Véronique Louwagie is one of the right-wing figures that counts, despite her relative media discretion. In a match she lost to Éric Woerth, one of her best public finance specialists, now in the renaissance, the elected official from Orne would have seen herself as chair of the Finance Committee. Beaten by the rebel Éric Coquerel, she finally inherited one of the four vice-presidencies of this organization.
Véronique Louwagie says she wants to defend the “pay-as-you-go pension” system and deplores “a communication problem at government level” in her bill. She declares herself “in favor of a pension reform”, on the condition that “a series of points are corrected that perhaps are holes in the shed or that have not been valued at their fair value”.
• Thomas Menage
Spokesman for the National Group, Thomas Ménagé became a deputy in Loiret this summer by defeating the former Minister of National Education Jean-Michel Blanquer. Speaker of his group on pensions, he wants to turn the extreme right into the first opponent of the reform and clarifies the members of Nupes “useful government idiots”.
The RN deputy points here to the nearly 13,000 amendments presented by LFI, against only about 200 from his group. Asked in recent days on Radio France, he criticized the “parliamentary obstruction”, “a stupid trap, because it gives the government the excuse of using 49.3, to say that the oppositions are not constructive”. He promises “some surprises” from the RN during the examination of the text in the chamber.
Source: BFM TV
