An output that does not go unnoticed. Franck Riester, the Delegate Minister for Relations with Parliament, returned the pension to 1,200 euros for future retirees. The left took advantage of this statement, after a controversial first sentence by the member of the Government about women “slightly penalized” by the reform.
“We never said that all retirees would have 1,200 euros. It’s wrong, we never said that ”, advances the delegate minister for Relations with Parliament this Friday night on BFMTV.
A central argument to convince about the pension reform
“We have always said that those 1,200 euros would be for people who have a full career with the minimum wage,” explains Franck Riester on our antenna.
His statement comes when the executive who made the “pension of 1,200 euros for all” an argument to convince the merits of his pension reform is in difficulties on the subject.
According to Elisabeth Borne during the presentation of the pension reform in mid-January, it will affect “employees and self-employed workers, in particular artisans and merchants, who have contributed their entire lives with income around the Smic”.
In his presidential program for Emmanuel Macron during the campaign, we can also read that “the minimum pension will be increased to 1,100 euros for a full career”, without specifying the amount of the salaries of future retirees.
“We will always have at least one person in 4 who will be below 1,200 euros”
Problem: this revaluation in the end will be far from affecting all retirees who receive small pensions.
“We will always have at least one person in four who will be below 1,200 euros, very clearly,” Olivier Dussopt, France Inter’s labor minister, also acknowledged on Thursday.
“It is for a fully paid career with minimum wage, full time,” the government member said.
“The goal is that with a full career no one retires with less than 1,200 net euros per month, or 85% of the minimum wage,” said Franck Riester in the South West columns last December.
“Retiring at 1,200 euros is a fable”
The contradiction has not escaped the left, a few days after the minister recognized in the LCP and the Public Senate that women would be “a little penalized” by retirement at 64 years of age.
“You always have to listen to Franck Riester. It was he who already recognized that the #Pension Reform He was going to widen the inequalities between women and men and it is he who now admits that the minimum pension of €1,200 is a fable. Thank you”, said Olivier Faure, number 1 of the Socialist Party on Twitter.
The same story with Manuel Bompard, the coordinator of La France insoumise.
“Decidedly, Minister Riester is the man of confessions. After acknowledging that the pension reform will penalize women, here he is confessing the lie about the pension of 1,200 euros ”, advances this close friend of Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
His colleague Hadrien Clouet wields irony on his side. “Finally, Franck Riester has returned. And he, without a doubt, will put a million more people on the streets”, judges this elected LFI.
“To know the truth, ask Riester”
The communist Ian Brossat is hardly cuter. “To find out the truth about this dirty pension reform, ask Riester. After admitting that it penalizes women, he admits that the promise of a minimum pension of 1,200 euros is false!”, he writes on his Twitter account this close Fabien Roussel.
By way of justification for the government’s contradiction, Olivier Dussopt advanced on France between the impossibility “of imagining a pension system where the pension was higher than what we have earned all our lives as salary.” The Minister of Labor could not indicate the number of people affected by the measure.
“Nearly 2 million small pensions will be increased,” said the Prime Minister during the presentation of the reform.
Source: BFM TV
