“You’ve turned your jacket inside out.” The questions to the Government followed one another this Tuesday afternoon in the National Assembly in the framework of a day of strike against the pension reform, a text debated since Monday at the Palais-Bourbon.
The opportunity for the various oppositions to make known their disagreements with the bill presented by the Minister of Labor Olivier Dussopt. Among them, the deputy Ikani Echaniz, who once again plunged into the files of the Assembly to challenge and trap the executive.
“A contempt for the proposals made by other social agents”
“The consultation that you promised appears for what it is: a farce to make believe that you have other priorities than the one that Medef blows you and a contempt for the proposals of the other social agents that you finally receive without listening to them or listening to them”, launched the Socialist deputy from the Atlantic Pyrenees.
“This desire to raise the retirement age is doubly unfair,” continued Ikani Echaniz from the bench of the Chamber.
“Unfair, because it immediately excludes the search for other income and in particular the contribution of all income and in particular capital […] because it will bring the effort to the generations born after 1990”, finally added the deputy before calling Olivier Dussopt.
“Are you really going to take into account the various proposals of the social partners or are you going to impose a reform already decided by the Élysée?” concluded the deputy for Nupes.
“The system is flawed”
A question that obviously did not remind Olivier Dussopt of anything, when he had said the same words in 2010 on the occasion of the pension reform desired by the Fillon government.
The Minister of Labor, in his response, assured that the text presented this week to the National Assembly “is not the same as before the consultation” carried out “during four months” with the social partners. “Have these advances made it possible to reach an agreement? The answer is no. It is not because there is convergence that there is a general agreement on the reform that we are proposing,” continued Olivier Dussopt.
“Does that mean that we should not do it? The answer is yes. We have to do it because the system is in deficit,” the minister finally argued.
The Pyrénées-Atlantiques deputy, who can react to the response of the minister he is questioning, then set out his position that contradicts the one he held in 2010. A text carried at the time by Éric Woerth, now a Renaissance deputy.
“I sincerely thank you for answering the question that you yourself asked Eric Woerth, the minister in charge of Nicolas Sarkozy’s pension reform, on May 4, 2010,” said Ikani Echaniz.
Various excerpts taken word for word
The question directed by Olivier Dussopt to the government of François Fillon in 2010 can be found on the website of the National Assembly. If the text has been slightly reworked by the deputy Ikani Echaniz so that it corresponds more to the content of the 2023 reform, several extracts have been taken verbatim.
“Since millions of people have taken to the streets to say no to your reform, since you turned your jacket around to become Minister of Social Security and Life Tax”, the Socialist deputy finally concluded, receiving applause from his fellow Nupes.
Source: BFM TV
