It is one of the most symbolic measures of the text.
While the executive pension reform project remains strongly contested by public opinion, the Minister Delegate for Relations with Parliament, Franck Riester, returned to the current controversy around the perimeter of the minimum pension at 1200 euros.
"
We never said that we were going to give 1,200 euros to everyone
," he said Thursday evening on BFMTV, rectifying in doing so the government's argument, which has long insisted on this amount as a strong element of social justice.
And for good reason, will in reality be concerned only people retiring after a full career, and whose jobs - full-time - will have been paid up to the minimum wage.
Wednesday, on France Inter, the Minister of Labor Olivier Dussopt had himself already had to specify the contours of this device, in response to a listener who questioned him on the subject.
“
1.8 million (…) retirees will benefit from a revaluation, which may go up to 100
euros depending on their career and depending on the reconstitution of their career
”, he explained. , confirming that the 1200 euros would be more of an objective than a fixed sum.
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In turn, Franck Riester was therefore summoned to provide details, he who had declared in December in
Sud Ouest
: "
The objective is that with a full career, no one retires with less than 1200 euros net per month, i.e. 85% of the minimum wage.
Asked about the vagueness that he would then have maintained, the minister struggled to defend himself.
"
It was not said like that
", "
it's fake news
", "
I totally disagree
", he said several times.
“
It concerns tens of thousands of people who will see their pensions revalued up to one hundred euros
”, he continued, referring to a revaluation “
proportionate to the level of wages that have been recorded
”.
All without being able to provide the precise number of retirees who will be eligible.
"You always have to listen to Franck Riester"
The sequence was immediately mocked by its opponents from Nupes, who took advantage of its difficulties in explaining the device to denounce it.
“
Decidedly, Minister Riester is the man of confessions.
After acknowledging that the pension reform will penalize women, here he is admitting the lie about the pension at
1200 euros
, ”lashed the coordinator of La France Insoumise, Manuel Bompard.
Allusion to another program, on February 3, where Franck Riester had recognized, unlike his government colleagues, that women would be “
a little penalized
” by the reform.
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“
You always have to listen to Franck Riester
,” also quipped the first secretary of the Socialist Party, Olivier Faure.
“
It was he who already recognized that the pension reform was going to widen the inequalities (women-men) and it is he who now admits that the minimum pension of
€1,200 is a fable.
THANKS.
“
To know the truth about this dirty pension reform, ask Riester
”, finally abounded in the wake of the spokesman of the Communist Party, Ian Brossat.
