The debates on the pension reform resume this Wednesday in the National Assembly the day after a mobilization less followed, but which remains determined to be part of the duration. 757,000 people demonstrated in France according to the Ministry of the Interior, nearly two million according to the CGT and the inter-union. Guest of Europe Morning Wednesday, the president of the Hauts-de-France region, Xavier Bertrand, returned to this bill which he considers unfair. “If you ask for effort, you need equity, but at the same level, not a little bit of equity, not a pinch of equity,” he said at the microphone of Europe 1.
Xavier Bertrand sets three conditions to support pension reform
The pension reform is only acceptable on the following three conditions, according to the president of Nous France: respecting the principle of 43 annuities which allow people to leave before the age of 64, put an end to special schemes and ensure that women can leave at retirement at 65 instead of 67. “Women are retiring today, for many of them at 67, it’s a truth that must be heard. We must save them two years,” he said. before recalling that these are not blocking conditions but improvement.
Work longer or pay more taxes
“The discourse of truth is simple: either we agree to work longer, or we agree to pay more contributions and more taxes, thus undermining purchasing power even more. Unimaginable. Or while pensions for retirees are falling . Unimaginable too. The only solution is to work a little longer, “says the president of the Hauts-de-France region.
The position of the Republicans is essential for the executive to be able to pass its reform and Xavier Bertrand knows it: “It is the Republicans who can bend a government which does not want to hear the message of the French who are demonstrating.”
“The French are not resentful but they are not amnesic”
If the executive does not move on certain points of its pension reform, and does not hear the conditions set by Xavier Bertrand, the president of We France says he fears a divorce between the government and the French. “The French are not resentful but they are not amnesic. We are no longer reforming pensions in 2023 as we did in 2003. 20 years have passed and that is why I think many French people can leave at 64, but not all of them. Not the one who is dented, damaged by work, not the one who started working very young”, he concluded.
Source: Europe1
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