The secretary general of the CFDT Laurent Berger affirms that the parliamentary obstruction on the pension reform project, on the menu of the Assembly from Monday, would be “a dead end”, in an interview Friday with the Echoes.
“Obstruction is not a solution, but a dead end. It is absolutely necessary that the national representation discusses article 7 and therefore the raising of the legal age to 64, the flagship measure of the reform, and that the deputies decide on the amendments aimed at abolishing it, “said Shepherd.
More than 20,000 amendments tabled
In the Social Affairs Committee, the deputies did not go beyond Article 2. And more than 20,000 amendments were tabled before the text arrived in the hemicycle, which makes it uncertain whether it will be fully examined by 17 February, deadline before its transmission to the Senate.
“Not discussing the age of 64 would reflect a form of disconnection with all those who demonstrate and challenge this reform”, insisted the boss of the CFDT, while the increase in the starting age from 62 to 64 is at the heart of the protest.
“I will not be one of those who will say that a reform of this magnitude adopted with 49.3 is undemocratic, but the government would be wrong to say once the text has been voted on, the subject is behind us”, also judged Berger, promising that the CFDT will assert its positions “until the end of the parliamentary debate”. The intersyndicale has scheduled two new days of action on February 7 and 11.