Improvement of pensions for women, balance of the system … The executive hopes that his bill can be adopted by the Senate, where he must be examined in public session from Thursday, March 2.
By Bertrand Bissuel
The executive is more than ever opened to the right proposals on pension reform. While the bill must be examined in session by the Senate from Thursday, March 2, the Elysée as well as the government display their benevolence with regard to the ideas carried by the elected representatives (LR) and Centrist Union ( UC) – The two components of the majority at the Palais du Luxembourg. Saturday, February 25, Emmanuel Macron even trained the wish that this parliament’s room “could enrich the text with what seems useful to him”.
The dialogue between the protagonists is relatively fluid because the LR and UC senators approve the cardinal measure of the reform: the gap from 62 to 64 years of the age of rights to a pension. For several years, they have not passed a provision in this direction, on the occasion of the examination of the social security budget – a provision which, until now, has always been dismissed from the final version of the text.
This time, the points of view converge, with regard to the postponement of the legal age, which does not mean that a consensus already prevails among the parties involved. In An interview posted on Saturday by the Parisian, Bruno Retailleau, the group president LR in the Senate, indicates that he and his colleagues wish to give their printer to the reform, but with “two requirements”. Primo: “We must not dig the deficits, but manage to fill them.” On this, common ground should be easily found, since the power in place is precisely to bring the pension system to balance in balance in 2030.
Second condition set by right -wing elected officials: “strong measures for mothers” must be taken. Mr. Retailleau evokes a diagram consisting in “leaving women the choice” between two options: either an early departure at 63, or an “surge” (that is to say an increase in the pension) of 5 % for Those who “have reached both a complete career and legal age”. For the leader of the LR group -the most powerful digitally training at the Luxembourg Palace -it is an essential claim: the executive, he warns, “will not have the downstream of the Senate” if no significant gesture is not made to this category of the population. His approach is part of the desire to defend an “ambitious natalist policy for France”.
signs of good will
A few minutes after the publication of the interview with Mr. Retailleau to the Parisian, the President of the Republic said he was very receptive to the suggestions of the parliamentarian: “I think that the government [them] will approach with opening (…) To build a majority behind this text, “Macron said on Saturday at the end of his visit to the Agricultural Show. The next day, on BFM-TV, Olivier Dussopt also expressed the greatest interest in the solutions put forward by LR: according to the Minister of Labor, one of the hypotheses under study would be to “say that from A certain age, if you have not reached the age of opening up rights (…) but your career is already complete, the quarters that you continue to make give rise to an upper “. Mr. Dussopt also appeared to be well arranged in the face of another expectation by Mr. Retailleau: the extinction of special retirement plans (RATP, electric and gas industries, etc.), that the boss of LR senators would like to see more materialize Quick that the reform provides.
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