This declaration comes as the Prime Minister will deliver his general policy declaration on Tuesday and could make a gesture towards the left on this reform.
Published on 11/01/2025 20:08
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“The message is clear.” The President of the Senate, Gérard Larcher, does not want “neither suspension nor abrogation” of pension reform, he says in an interview with Parisian published Saturday January 11. These comments come as Prime Minister François Bayrou will deliver his general policy declaration on Tuesday and could make a gesture towards the left on this reform.
“On Tuesday, the Prime Minister will make the choice. In the Senate, I will not lead a suspension or repeal procedure”continues Senator Les Républicains. “If we repealed the pension reform, the cost would be 3.4 billion euros in 2025, and almost 16 billion in 2032”says Gérard Larcher, based on Retirement Insurance estimates. The president of the PS group in the Senate, Patrick Kanner, estimated that freezing the reform for six months would cost “between 2 and 3 billion euros”which could be drawn from the pension reserve fund.
“I trust the Prime Minister. That he is open and that he dialogues with the left, I have no problem with that. Simply, on the sovereign and on the budget, there are things that the right does not will not give up”warns the President of the Senate. Gérard Larcher says he expects François Bayrou’s general policy declaration “a line, a course and commitments”.
On the subject of the budget, the senator calls for continuing “reducing the deficit and public spending with concrete actions, particularly on state agencies and simplification”. He cites in particular the Environment and Energy Management Agency (Ademe) and its “more than 4 billion budget”. “We ask that there be no additional taxation beyond what had already been debated in the Senate, namely the surtax on large businesses and the taxation of higher incomes”he adds.
