Marlène Schiappa affirms that the reform will “provide useful answers” to precarious women
In a platform at the JDDMarlène Schiappa, Secretary of State for the Social and Solidarity Economy, and women deputies from the majority say they are working “to provide useful answers to all these women who are going to retire, after a choppy career, part-time, with a small salary.
The situation of women is one of the major concerns of this reform. Marlène Schiappa explains that quarters of parental leave will be taken into account.
In addition, “the reform provides for the creation of old-age insurance for carers which will validate their quarters for their retirement”, she adds.
More than 7,000 amendments tabled in committee at the National Assembly
The text of the pension reform arrives in committee at the National Assembly this Monday. Before that, parliamentarians are required to “enrich” the text.
More than 7,000 amendments have been tabled, mainly by the left, which intends to prolong the debates, while the right seeks to raise the stakes, aware that its votes will be crucial to adopt the reform.
The government must also deal with its own majority, where many are calling for improvements and some are reluctant to vote for the text.
This overall number makes it very difficult to examine the text in its entirety, before it arrives in the hemicycle on February 6.
The LR mayor of Cannes David Lisnard wants to introduce a dose of capitalization into the pension system
In an interview granted to the JDDDavid Lisnard, LR mayor of Cannes, recommends introducing a dose of capitalization into the pay-as-you-go system.
“It is the best solution to guarantee retirees greater purchasing power than the pay-as-you-go system allows, clean up public accounts and strengthen investment in companies,” he defends.
The idea of capitalization is based on saving for your own retirement when you are still active, instead of paying the pension of people who are already retired.
“The State would be less and less concerned over time with the financing of retirement”, explains David Lisnard.
More than 200 rallies planned for Tuesday against pension reform
Galvanized by the success of their first mobilization against the pension reform, the unions are calling for new demonstrations everywhere in France.
The opponents of the reform have therefore made an appointment this Tuesday, January 31 for a new day of mobilization where more than 200 rallies are planned.
Seasonal ski resort workers mobilized against pension reform
The two main ski lift unions, CGT and FO, have filed an unlimited strike notice for January 31, in protest against the pension reform project.
“Our hardship account is at zero”, laments our Benjamin Monnet, first aid tracker, FO delegate.
Gérald Darmanin accuses Nupes of “seeking to border the country”
In an interview with Le Parisien, the Minister of the Interior criticized “bobo leftism” which defends the idea of a “workless” society, in opposition to the government’s reform project which carries “the values of effort, merit and emancipation”.
“The Nupes, the more the days pass, the more left-wing voters see that it is a scam. The Nupes only seeks to mess up the country,” he said.
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For Elisabeth Borne, the postponement of the starting age to 64 “is no longer negotiable”
The postponement of the retirement age from 62 to 64, contested by the unions and most of the opposition, “is no longer negotiable”, said Elisabeth Borne this Sunday, on the eve of the start of the examination of the project in committee at the Assembly.
“It is no longer negotiable, retirement at 64 and the acceleration (of the extension of the contribution period, editor’s note) of the Touraine reform”, said on franceinfo the Prime Minister:
“This is the compromise that we proposed after having heard the employers’ organizations and trade unions, after having exchanged with the various parliamentary groups (…) It is necessary to ensure the balance of the system”.
Bruno Le Maire calls on the parties of the majority “to unite” and hopes for the support of the Republicans “until the end”
The Minister of Economy Bruno Le Maire called on the majority parties (Renaissance, Horizon, MoDem) “to unite” in the National Assembly and to support the pension reform, in an interview at Sunday newspaper.
“When you belong to a majority, you support the proposals that were part of the presidential project,” said the minister, who said he hoped that the Republicans would support this reform “to the end”.
“The real injustice would be to drop our system. This would weaken women, the most modest, those who have had choppy careers,” he also added.
Jean-Luc Mélenchon suggests a “very big weekend walk”
Saturday, Jean-Luc Mélenchon reiterated his wish that the unions “allow” the forthcoming organization of a “very large march” against the pension reform “during a weekend” for further mobilization.
“If there are calls to demonstrate, demonstrate. We are lucky to have all our unions united and all the Nupes organizations united for this January 31,” the former LFI presidential candidate told Villiers. -le-Bel, during the New Year’s Eve ceremony for La France Insoumise deputy Carlos Martens Bilongo.
Why a demonstration during a weekend? “Because during the week, only those who are at work can take action, through strikes. Which is not always easy for them, but they are there,” he explained.
Manuel Bompard is the guest of BFM Politique at noon
The new coordinator of France Insoumise and deputy of the Bouches du Rhône participates in the program BFM Politique from noon on BFMTV. He will notably discuss the pension reform project one week before the opening of the debates in the National Assembly.
Elisabeth Borne deplores the “false information” circulating on the reform
While traveling in Calvados yesterday, the Prime Minister felt that “a lot of false information” is circulating on the pension reform.
“I hear a lot of false information. For example, I hear that apprentices before 2014 cannot benefit from the trimesters they acquired as part of their apprenticeship, I hear that the reform would penalize women who have chopped careers”, she declared at the microphone of BFMTV.
The head of government reaffirmed her desire to favor pedagogy to explain this reform which remains largely unpopular with the French.
For Laurent Berger, not taking the demonstrations into account “would be a fault”
Several members of the government have indicated that the mobilizations would not call into question their will to carry out this reform project which they describe as necessary. In an interview with Le Monde, Laurent Berger felt that the executive and the Parliament would be wrong not to consider the extent of the protest in the streets.
Will Tuesday’s mobilization be more massive than that of January 19?
During their various speeches since the mobilization of January 19, the leaders of the inter-union repeated their intention to bring together even more people in the streets for that of January 31. As a reminder, the organizations estimate that two million people demonstrated during the first day of mobilization while the Ministry of the Interior evokes a figure slightly higher than one million demonstrators across France.