Yesterday, at the National Assembly, there was no crowd around the red sofas in the room of the four columns. In fact, most of the elected representatives of La République en Marche were still in Angers for the end of their parliamentary days, as were the PS deputies who met in Montpellier. But the pension reform, which the government intends to put back on the table, was on everyone’s lips. And his detractors weren’t necessarily predictable.
Thus Olivier Becht, president of the AGIR group, yet support of the majority, assures The Dispatch : “The pension reform, yes it is essential because otherwise we will not be able to pay any more but it is not the right timing because we will not have time to make the legislative reform (before the end of the transfer). good timing, it is the presidential pact. We need a democratic pact which is tied during the campaign “.
A little further, Nicolas Dupont-Aignan, him, does not take offense: “I think that a pension reform must be complete there it is an electoral reform, we are in a propaganda operation, but it should be a subject election campaign, this must be the subject of proposals from the candidates.Our retirees have already been extorted by Emmanuel Macron, we remember the increase in the CSG, it is not at the time to revive consumption that we will get there “.
The radical Bertrand Pancher, president of the Libertés et Territoires group, is not tender either: “We need a comprehensive reform and we need time. Launching a reform like that is not what We cannot, of course, postpone the pension reform ad vitam aeternam but the government had four years to do it. a few months of the presidential election, we do not need to add confusion “.
For him, the legislative vehicle evoked by the leaks from the government is not the right one: “To include this text in the PLFSS (Social security financing bill, Editor’s note), it is even worse because the PLFSS, c ‘is a month of work, day and night, with texts that pass at the last moment without prior debate “. The member fears the lack of readability.
“The abolition of special diets, we have been talking about it since 2017”
Sacha Houilé, LREM deputy of Vienne, one of the few to have returned from Angers, defends, for his part, the position of the government: “At the time of the debates around the parametric reform, I wrote to the President for to tell him that it was not a good idea but to go after the end of the special regimes and to revalue the small pensions, it is an extremely correct message. Moreover, it is a structuring commitment which commits for the future ” .
Another LREM deputy present at the Assembly, Didier Martin assures us: “Personally, I find the proposal interesting because it highlights two important measures: the abolition of special regimes, which was eagerly awaited, but also, even more expected, the minimum retirement”. He thinks this is the right timing because “1000 euros per month is not a measure to please, it is a fair measure. In addition, special diets are not a surprise , we have been talking about it since 2017. We must send signals in favor of justice “.
For the former minister, deputy LR, Eric Woerth: “This reform is an absolute necessity but it must guarantee the financing of the regime”. On the timing, he assures us that “it is up to the government to decide”. And if he recognizes that the fact that this reform coincides with the beginning of the campaign poses a problem, he adds: “if it is necessary, it must be done but it is not necessary to go there only on the expenditure part”. And to add: “Everyone is in campaign, the President too but the objective is to govern until the last moment and to govern, that also means to reform”. A walker could not have said better.
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