While the unions are preparing the minds for a big mobilization, on March 7, the pension reform arrives on February 28 in the Senate. The text will be debated for about ten days. And unlike the Assembly where the presidential camp has a relative majority, it is the right and the Republicans (LR) who have the majority in the Senate. LR senators are in favor of postponing the legal age, but they are now setting their own conditions, even if it means once again putting a strain on party unity.
In the aisles of the Agricultural Show, Éric Ciotti toasts with winegrowers, poses all smiles in front of a bull. But turns his head when asked about pensions. ” I won’t answer on that “, he says at the microphone of Pierrick Bonno from the political service of RFI.
The boss of the Republicans ends up acknowledging that he is no longer entirely in agreement with the LR senators: “ We work in a balance and a permanent and high quality consultation. »
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Elisabeth Borne open to new proposals
Because in the Senateit is now Bruno Retailleau which sets the priorities: acceleration of the end of the special regimes, revaluation of the retirement of mothers of families, but above all, return to a balanced budget.
A condition sine qua non for the leader of the LR senators: “ The starting point of this reform, it must be remembered, are the deficits of the pay-as-you-go pension system. And the starting point for the reform should not be the deficits, so that we end up in 2030 with a deficit because then the efforts we are asking the French to have been for nothing. »
Even if it means going back in part to a costly device yet negotiated by right-wing deputies, that of long careers. And with government approval. Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne repeated yesterday that she was open to these new proposals from the Senate.
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