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“We can seek a new path to reform, without any totem and without any taboo, not even the retirement age,” declared the Prime Minister on Tuesday.
It's no. While part of the left hoped to be able to twist the arm of the head of the executive by forcing a suspension of the pension reform, François Bayrou addressed them with a refusal. During his general policy speech, delivered this Tuesday to the National Assembly, the Prime Minister defended his choice not to pause the progressive application of the reform “vital for our country and our social model” of 2023, deeming the budgetary emergency too pressing.
“Our pension system pays out some 380 billion euros in pensions each year. […] However, private and public employers and employees pay approximately 325 billion per year.encrypted François Bayrou. The French State must therefore borrow “40 or 45 billion” to make up this deficit, each year: in other words, this sum is put “at the expense of generations who come or who will come”. “Of the more than 1000 billion additional debt accumulated by our country over the last ten years, pensions represent 50% of this total”then insisted the head of government.
If he does not wish to pause this text which led to significant social mobilizations in 2023, the former high commissioner for planning promised to “bring this subject back to work, with the social partners, for a short time, and under transparent conditions”. Initially, the Court of Auditors will be called upon to carry out a «mission flash» pendant “a few weeks”in order to provide a “observation” clear and quantified to the government. At the same time, a “permanent delegation” social partners will be created to begin discussing this explosive issue. She will be reunited “from Friday”and the representatives will have to work together “for three months from the date of the report of the Court of Auditors”.
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By the next draft social security budget (PLFSS), next fall, thus, “we can seek a new path to reform, without any totem and without any taboo, not even retirement age”judged François Bayrou. Objective: make the reform “socially more just, yet balanced”while respecting budgetary requirements. If the social partners manage to reach an agreement by then, the executive undertakes to adopt “the agreement of balance and better justice”. Otherwise, “it is the current reform which would continue to apply”warned the Prime Minister. The starting signal is given.
