This is the central element, the pillar of the pension reform. Article 7, which the Assembly had not reached during its two weeks of debate, providing for the postponement of the legal retirement age from 62 to 64, was validated by the joint joint committee. Supporters of this decline in the legal age are clearly in the majority in the composition of this commission, bringing together 7 senators and 7 deputies, and as many alternates. If the commission was conclusive, which LR announced while the discussions are still in progress, the text resulting from the body should still be submitted on Thursday to votes by the Senate, then by the Assembly.
“Article 7 which postpones the starting age to 64 is adopted in the CMP, with the complicity of the LRs. 10 parliamentarians vote behind closed doors 2 years firm for the whole of the population”, reacted in the wake on Twitter the leader of the rebellious deputies Mathilde Panot, present in the commission. “The shift in the starting age is unfair and will aggravate precariousness. We continue our mobilization against this unjust reform ”, abounded on Twitter Arthur Delaporte (PS). “70% of the French are opposed to it, 70% of the CMP is made up of those who support this postponement: they will answer for it before the voters”, denounced for his part the deputy of the RN group Thomas Ménagé, also present in the commission. .
A “scam” on long careers?
The parliamentarians will examine in the wake of article 8, which includes in particular the measures planned for long careers. The LR deputy for Lot Aurélien Pradié, and with him part of the LR group, requests that all beneficiaries of the long career scheme (who started working before the age of 21) do not contribute more than 43 annuities, regardless of legal age .
The rumor ran Wednesday in the corridors of the Assembly that the government was going to accede to this request in CMP, on the eve of a very uncertain vote in Parliament. But the parliamentarians of the left dispute it, believing that the government is only taking up a proposal from the government, deemed insufficient by the deputy LR. “A third of people with a long career should contribute more” than the 43 annuities, insisted at the Assembly Manuel Bompard, coordinator of La France insoumise. “It’s a scam since it always accumulates with the age difference”, denounced the ecologist Sandrine Rousseau.
“It is not the Pradié amendment which was much broader”, confirmed to journalists the deputy MoDem Philippe Vigier, member of the presidential majority in the Assembly, who however defends a breakthrough. “The idea is that there are 43 annuities for everyone, but respecting age limits. Leaving at 58, 60 or 62, but respecting the 43 annuities with 5 quarters “worked before a certain age, said Macronist senator Xavier Iacovelli. “The amendment that could be accepted is not that of Pradié. It always has age limits, ”confirms an LR executive.