For the third time in less than a week, the debate on the repeal of the pension reform is relaunched in a public session at the National Assembly. Monday, November 4, during the examination of the Social Security financing bill (PLFSS) for 2025, the deputies had to review several amendments, supported by the left and the center, which are part of in the desire to remove the postponement from 62 to 64 of the age of eligibility for a pension. Initiatives in this direction are multiplying, while remaining unsuccessful for the moment, while a clear majority of elected officials sitting at the Palais-Bourbon would like to draw a line under the rules promulgated in mid-April 2023. A difficult battle to follow, sometimes synonymous with a confused melee, especially since it sees political forces pursuing the same objective clash.
If the discussions do not turn into a slow race, the deputies were to examine, on Monday, almost identical amendments drafted by the four components of the New Popular Front (NFP). Their aim is to rewrite a report appearing in the annex to the PLFSS by introducing the idea that the shift in the legal retirement age is repealed, as is the increase in the contribution period required for a pension. full rate for certain generations – another mechanism established by the law of April 14, 2023. The amendments in question add that “the financial trajectory of basic pension plans includes the effects of this repeal”.
The approach is located “on the level of principles”confides Eric Coquerel, La France insoumise (LFI) deputy for Seine-Saint-Denis. If it were voted on, the provision supported by the left would, in fact, have no binding legal power, in particular because it clashes with article 40 of the Constitution, which prohibits parliamentary initiatives having the effect of creating or increase a public charge – which would be the case, in this case, since the disappearance of the 64-year-old rule would lead to additional expenses.
“A first step”
These amendments therefore constitute a way of continuing a political fight initiated for more than a year and a half. “It’s about maintaining a balance of power to show that we are not writing off this subjectexplains Jérôme Guedj, deputy (Socialists and related) for Essonne. If we do not achieve our goals under this legislature or by the end of Emmanuel Macron's mandate, the removal of these age measures will be at the heart of the next presidential campaign in 2027.” For his part, André Chassaigne, the president of the Democratic and Republican Left group in the National Assembly, sees “a first step towards repeal”.
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