The Senate, dominated by the right-wing opposition, voted overnight from Friday to Saturday in favor of a gradual postponement of the legal retirement age from 62 to 64 years, judging that there is urgency.
In his speech on Tuesday, Emmanuel Macron estimated that "the conditions are not met" to relaunch the work of the pension reform, which he postponed to 2022, in other words probably to another five-year term.
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"We are doing it", launched at the Luxembourg Palace René-Paul Savary (LR), co-rapporteur of the 2022 budget project for the Secu. An amendment to this effect was adopted by 196 votes against 134, after discussions on this text which must be voted as a whole at first reading on Tuesday. The amendment provides for a financing conference bringing together the social partners and responsible for formulating avenues for achieving the financial balance of pension schemes by 2030.
In the absence of an agreement, the text provides for the entry into force from January 1, 2023 of a series of measures, including the gradual postponement of the retirement age to 64 from of the 1966 generation, and a convergence of special regimes before 2032. Emmanuel Macron "is the only president for thirty years to have done nothing" while the Senate has taken its responsibilities very regularly, estimated the head of senators LR Bruno Retailleau.
"We cannot continue to procrastinate"
Conceived as one of the great reforms of the Macron five-year term, the overhaul of the pension system was interrupted in early 2020 due to the Covid-19 epidemic, after having provoked major social movements.
“We cannot continue to procrastinate as the government did for five years,” added General Rapporteur Elisabeth Doineau (centrist).
But, replied Secretary of State Adrien Taquet, "we have a difference at the moment" and some differences in substance.
To carry out such a reform, a “health situation under control” and an “intense democratic debate”, in other words at the time of the presidential campaign, are needed.
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Emmanuel Macron's speech of November 9, 2021
"From 2022, it will be necessary to preserve the pensions of our retirees and the solidarity between our generations, to take clear decisions", declared Tuesday the Head of State.
According to him, it is a question of "pushing back the legal age", "abolishing special regimes by harmonizing the rules between public and private and ensuring that at the end of a full career, no pension can be less than 1,000 euros ”.
But also by "encouraging work beyond the legal age".