The subject is explosive but could once again find its way onto the political agenda. The pension reform, promise of the candidate Emmanuel Macron in 2017, put aside with the health crisis, resurfaces in the public debate. “There will be choices to be made” to deal with the pension issue, government spokesman Gabriel Attal warned on Wednesday, a few days before a social summit bringing together the President of the Republic and the social partners. On Europe 1, Gérard Larcher president LR of the Senate, says he is “ready” for the debate.
“I think this is an essential reform if we want to save the pay-as-you-go system,” he explains, pointing to three levers of action: “either age, or the reduction in pensions, or increase in contributions “. “I believe we must tell the truth to the French,” explains the President of the Senate. “There is a window: the social security financing bill in the fall.
The scenario of an extended retirement age to 64 would be on the table. A parametric recovery measure in the emergency, rather than the reform initially proposed by the executive of a point system. The Minister of the Economy Bruno Le Maire said on Tuesday he was in favor of lowering the retirement age, believing that it was not necessary “to put off until tomorrow what we can do today”. A “red line” for the unions, in particular the CFDT.
“The courage of the truth”
The first version of the reform had led to a social conflict of nearly ten weeks in the winter of 2019-2020. After the Covid-19 health crisis, are the French ready to relaunch this controversial reform? “The method must appeal to social dialogue, to dialogue with the Parliament”, answers Gérard Larcher, recalling the deficit of 13 billion euros of the pension system over the year 2020.
In addition to the social dialogue, “we also need the courage of the truth, of the decision”, adds the President of the Senate, recalling that the reform had been voted twice at the Luxembourg Palace “in the diversity of the senatorial majority”. “We are ready for a debate,” he assures us.
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