On the eve of the arrival of the text on pensions in the hemicycle of the National Assembly, the Prime Minister wanted this Sunday to secure the vote of the LR deputies. Elisabeth Borne announces for this at JDD that people who started working between the ages of 20 and 21 will be able to retire at 63, not 64.
On the highly contested reform, “we are going to move by extending this long career system to those who started working between the ages of 20 and 21. They will thus be able to leave at the age of 63”. “We hear” the request of right-wing elected officials, justifies the head of government.
The voices of the LRs are essential to get the text across. They have therefore raised the stakes and have been pleading for several days to prevent “those who started working the earliest (must) contribute the longest”, according to party president Eric Ciotti. A green light to their proposal on long careers “will make it possible to win a very large majority in the LR group”, he assured the Parisian.
“Up to 30,000 people per year” concerned
“It is a measure which will cost between 600 million and one billion euros per year, and which will concern up to 30,000 people per year”, underlines Elisabeth Borne. And “as we are carrying out this reform to ensure the balance of the system by 2030, we will have to find ways of financing”.
Currently, starting a career before the age of 20 can allow an early retirement of two years, and entering the workforce before the age of 16 can give the right to an early retirement of four years. The reform project provides that this system will be “adapted”: those who started before the age of 20 will be able to leave two years earlier, i.e. 62 years old; those who started before 18 will be able to leave at 60, etc.
A second gesture towards LR
The Prime Minister also has “no objection” to another request from the LRs, also carried by the MoDem group: that of making “a mid-term progress report on the reform”, in 2027. This year There, “there is a presidential election and legislative elections”, which “is already a form of review clause”, she notes.
While two new days of mobilization are planned, February 7 and 11, Elisabeth Borne also says she understands that the reform pushing back the legal age from 62 to 64 “causes reactions, reluctance and concerns”. “But our objective is to ensure the future of our pay-as-you-go pension system,” she insists, saying “regrets (r) that some, especially on the left, maintain misunderstandings”.
In response to the leader of the CFDT Laurent Berger, who accused her Thursday evening of lacking “empathy”, the tenant of Matignon affirms that “it is hurtful, and it is the opposite of who I am and of what I’m wearing.” And if the reform does not finally pass? “I don’t make that assumption. I am looking for the way, ”assures the Prime Minister.