“Can we have an answer?” launched the LFI deputy Alexis Corbière during another point of order, during this last night of debates in the Assembly on the first review of the retirement reform. This question was addressed by the deputy for Seine-Saint-Denis, like many of his colleagues in the chamber, to the Minister of Labor Olivier Dussopt about long careers.
Asked by more than a dozen deputies about the details of his amendment on long careers and 43 annuities at the center of debates for several days, Olivier Dussopt left the National Assembly somewhat puzzled. At first, the minister did not say candidly that the government had presented the same amendment as Aurélien Pradié, according to which all long-term careers could retire after 43 annuities.
For environmentalist deputy Marine Tondelier, “understanding” Olivier Dussopt should “be recognized as a criterion of hardship,” she wrote on Twitter.
“Exactly the same” as that of Pradié
The lack of response, then the lack of clarity annoyed the entire opposition, even the extreme right where the spokesman for the RN group in the Assembly Thomas Ménagé asked again: “It’s ‘we could have answers from the government (…) 43 maximum annuities, yes or no?
The minister ended by replying that his amendment was “exactly the same as the one presented by Aurélien Pradié”.
Olivier Dussopt then argued that there would be “no requirement for a period of membership in the scheme of more than 43 years” for “long careers”.
“You are therefore fully satisfied”, claimed the Minister of Labor before being questioned again about the 10,000 million euros that this reform was initially going to cost, according to the Government.
Source: BFM TV
