The announcement is already having the effect of a bomb on the right.
And it is not likely to appease relations between the deputies and the senators Les Républicains.
Pierre-Henri Dumont, LR deputy for Pas-de-Calais, filed – as part of the pension reform – an amendment to abolish the special scheme for senators.
Its text provides for “
aligning the pension plan
” of elected members of the Upper House with “
the common law system of the public service
”, as the National Assembly has applied since January 1, 2018.
On the side of the senators, we welcome the tabling of this amendment very coldly.
"
It's amazing
", comments an elected LR of the Upper House, who tastes very little of this little spade from his comrade from the Palais Bourbon.
"This amendment is the result of the settling of scores of the Congress of Republicans",
analyzes a connoisseur of the LR party, referring to the recent internal election which saw Aurélien Pradié clash - to whom Pierre-Henri Dumont is very close -, Bruno Retailleau, boss of the LR troops in the Senate, and Éric Ciotti, who won.
And the tensions which followed the poll on the composition of the organization chart of the party.
This issue of the pension plan for senators is not new.
Already in 2019, President LR of the Senate Gérard Larcher recalled that it is "
an autonomous scheme, which does not receive any specific subsidy
", and which already applies "
the same parameters as those applicable to the general scheme
".
Since the creation of the pension fund for senators in 1905, “
senators finance the benefits of their plan themselves without resorting to financial transfers from the State or other social plans.
There is no balance endowment, balance subsidy, or financial transfer from outside
, ”completes the Senate on its site.