The countdown is on. In a little less than a month, on June 8, the pension reform will make its comeback in the National Assembly. While the bill was promulgated in mid-April by the President of the Republic, the Liot group, a fervent critic of the reform, intends to take advantage of its parliamentary niche to put the sentence of the reform back at the heart of the debates, via a bill. Objective: to repeal the gradual increase in the legal retirement age from 62 to 64. A golden opportunity that has not escaped opposition... as to the unions.
In a letter, dated May 5 and sent this Tuesday, May 9, the Intersyndicale "solemnly asks" parliamentarians to vote for the bill in question. According to Europe 1 and BFMTV, which reveal the content of the complaint, all elected officials are called to act in this way, except those of the National Rally, to whom the letter was not sent. "During a chaotic parliamentary journey, the government has used all the constitutional tools at its disposal to limit the democratic exercise," scolds all the trade unions. He added that "it is not only a question of preventing the establishment of an unjust device, it is also a question of restoring the nation's confidence in the reality and vigour of its democracy and of maintaining a threatened social cohesion."
It must be said that the jousting over the pension reform had been of a rare intensity in the Hemicycle between February and March. The culmination of the debates, the use of constitutional article 49-3 by the executive had provoked a series of violence in the country. The opportunity for the inter-union to drive the nail in: "The government has remained deaf to this popular will and misunderstanding has given way to indignation, as well as anger.
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A future meeting between Liot and the unions
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Because we are deeply committed to our pay-as-you-go pension system, and to the principle of solidarity, this law is not acceptable and is in no way a reform of social justice," the unions said in their letter. While the five representative organizations will meet the Prime Minister in Matignon on May 16 or 17 to discuss future projects - such as the Full Employment Act - the inter-union proposes to parliamentarians a meeting before June 8, to talk specifically about pensions.
At the center of many parliamentary initiatives in recent weeks, Bertrand Pancher, president of the Liot group, will, according to Politico and the JDD, soon receive the bosses of the CFDT, Laurent Berger, and the CGT, Sophie Binet. His troops had already been at the origin of the famous motion of censure of March 20. Finally rejected by nine votes, it almost brought down the government and rejected the pension reform.
