This Thursday, the temperature is likely to rise in the National Assembly when the proposed law to repeal the pension reform will be debated. Included in the program of the LFI parliamentary niche, adopted this week in the Social Affairs Committee, with the votes of deputies from the New Popular Front (NFP) and the reinforcement of elected officials from the National Rally (RN), it plans to remove part of the Emmanuel Macron's reform, by reducing the legal retirement age to 62 while retaining measures favorable to small pensions and long careers.
Surprise, the text also erases the Touraine pension reform of 2014, adopted under François Hollande, by reducing, this time, the contribution period from 43 to 42 years. Enough to embarrass the socialists, who until now have always defended the mechanism put in place by Marisol Touraine ten years ago but who have lined up behind the text “as consensual as possible”, according to PS deputy Arthur Delaporte.
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“I will table an amendment to say that we are repealing the 2023 reform but that we are not going as far as the Touraine reform”, for his part, certified the First Secretary of the PS, Olivier Faure. “The important thing is to return to the injustice of the Macron reform and to show that the French are, even today, opposed to any reduction in the age”, comments the rapporteur of the text, Ugo Bernalicis, deputy of La France insoumise du Nord.
Opposite, the groups of the government base have been able to defend “the progress of these reforms”, castigate a left “reduced to copying the National Rally”, they were not heard. Will they play obstruction on Thursday in the hemicycle? The NFP deputies are preparing for it, while those of the National Rally are already rejoicing: ” At any rate, notes Thomas Ménage, from the Loiret RN, without us, this text could not have been adopted in committee, and it will be the same in the hemicycle. »
As for the economic consequences of the removal of the Touraine and Macron reforms, which the right and the Macronists have not failed to highlight, the Insoumis respond that with an increase in social security contributions, and taxes on companies that make super profits, the pay-as-you-go pension system will remain sustainable.
If the positions of each party are maintained, the text will be adopted in the National Assembly. But its legislative road is still very long. Repeal has no chance of succeeding in the lower house, dominated by the right and the center. The Insoumis text could even be judged inadmissible before the vote, due to the burden it would place on public finances.
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