The head of the Socialist senators Patrick Kanner promised on Saturday that the postponement of the legal retirement age from 62 to 64 will be discussed and put to a vote in the Senate in March, contrary to what happened in the Assembly.
“I promise to examine article 7”, related to the measurement of age. We believe that this is what we owe to the French people who, as the union unit asks us, are waiting for this debate to take place ”, he assured. on BFMTV Senator from the North.
The text debated in the Senate as of March 2
The National Assembly, where the duration of the debates was limited to 9 days, ended the first reading examination of the pension reform on Friday night without reaching this article. The approval of the text at the Palais Bourbon took place in a stormy, sometimes chaotic climate, and got bogged down while thousands of amendments were tabled, in particular by the left-wing opposition. The reform will now come to the Senate in committee on February 28, then to the chamber from March 2.
“The upper assembly works differently, fortunately for our democracy, for the image of Parliament,” argued Patrick Kanner, considering that an “issue as serious as the postponement of the legal retirement age to 64” deserves “debate.” “The Senate will not disappoint you,” continues the socialist senator who intends, with his group, to oppose “an unpopular, unfair, useless text.”
“Not because we will have the same invectives, the same verbal or even physical violence. But we will work with absolute rigor, with determination, with strength ”(…) and“ in a climate that will have nothing to do with it ”, he insisted.
Source: BFM TV
