the Socialist Party ready to vote for repeal, even if it means sacrificing the Touraine reform

The socialist deputies (LFI) will vote to repeal the pension reform carried by the “rebels”, Thursday November 28, even if this would amount to sacrificing another reform implemented by the socialist minister Marisol Touraine in 2013, said Sunday, November 24, the president of the Socialist Party group in the National Assembly, Boris Vallaud.

La France insoumise will present Thursday in the Hemicycle the removal of Elisabeth Borne's reform of March 2023, which raised the retirement age to 64 years. And it also proposes to reduce from 43 to 42 years the contribution period necessary to retire, a provision introduced during the five-year term of François Hollande.

“I think that we must return to a legal age of 62 and that we must maintain the Touraine reform”explained Sunday on the set of “Political Questions” Boris Vallaud, who says his “attachment” to this reform “which is accompanied by measures on long careers and arduousness”.

“In the hemicycle, we will vote for the restoration of the Touraine reform”via an amendment tabled by the Liberties, Independents, Overseas and Territories group, “but we will also vote, even if [la suppression de la réforme Touraine] had to be maintained, the repeal of the reform of M^me Borne »he added.

In the event of a vote, repeal on the agenda in the Senate

Questioned on BFM-TV, the leader of the LFI deputies, Mathilde Panot, was confident about the outcome of Thursday's vote: “We are going to refuel and even we are going to win next Thursday”she assured, while the entire left like the National Rally should support the bill.

“It is a very, very powerful political signal, which shows that it is possible to undo the policies of Macron and his world of misfortuneshe rejoiced in anticipation. And, second thing – I hope that the Macronists will stick it in their heads: we cannot govern against the people, in particular by imposing a reform by force that no one wants. »

If it were voted on Thursday, the repeal proposal should be included on the Senate agenda on January 23, on the occasion of a communist niche, then in second reading in the Assembly on February 6, this time in a niche aimed at environmentalists.

Faced with the threat of seeing the reform unraveled, the Macronists must still decide on their strategy. Could they obstruct Thursday by tabling thousands of amendments to prevent a vote? “Absolutely not”promised government spokesperson Maud Bregeon in an interview with Parisian.