Alexandre Chauveau, edited by Yanis Darras
10:43 a.m., January 31, 2023
Almost a month after its presentation, the pension reform bill desired by the government arrives in the National Assembly. Since Monday, the deputies of the Social Affairs Committee have been studying the reform article by article. If during the first day, the debates were sometimes heated, the elected officials voted the progressive end of the special regimes.
In the National Assembly, the start of the parliamentary marathon around the pension reform has begun. The deputies who are members of the Social Affairs Committee debated the first articles of the reform on Monday. Among the latter, article 1 was voted on by elected officials. The latter provides for the gradual extinction of several special plans, such as those of the RATP.
This first day of debate serves as a warm-up for the majority, which sees the opposition of the left-wing parties, the National Rally and part of the Republicans rise up against it. “When we start, as is the case with the special schemes, to finance our pay-as-you-go system by appealing to the state budget, it means that we are no longer in a pay-as-you-go system” , hammered in front of the elected officials, the Renaissance deputy, Marc Ferracci.
Elisabeth Borne ready to improve the text
A declaration which angered the communist Pierre Darville: “If you are so attached to not appealing to the taxpayer to finance social protection, stop the exemption fair. 75 billion euros per year are financed by the taxpayer. These are not decisions that we made Mr. Ferracci”, he was annoyed.
If the debates sometimes overflow, for her part, the Prime Minister, Élisabeth Borne, continues to study ways to improve the text. The main demand of the right concerns the passage from 44 to 43 years of contribution for people who started working before the age of 20. According to a heavyweight in the government, the executive is ready to let go of an additional three billion euros, on the condition of making new savings on other expenses.
Source: Europe1
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