Employees of the long career scheme, i.e. who started working before the age of 21, will not have to contribute more than 43 years old to retire once they have reached the retirement age. anticipated required, announced Tuesday Elisabeth Borne, who is changing her initial project on this point. "Once the early retirement age is reached, the reform does not provide, for long careers, for a contribution period of more than 43 years," said the Prime Minister during the session of current affairs questions at the government.
In the initial project, some long-career employees had to contribute for 44 years, in particular those who started working between the ages of 16 and 18. This "principle" of contribution for a maximum of 43 years will be enshrined in a government amendment tabled on Tuesday which already extended the long career scheme to those who started working between the ages of 20 and 21. This last point had already been the subject of an initial development in response to LR's requests.
Eight members of LR's political bureau had abstained on the text of party boss Éric Ciotti, including Xavier Bertrand and several deputies (Raphaël Schellenberger, Isabelle Perigault, Ian Boucard, Maxime Minot, Fabien di Filippo, etc.), reluctant to vote for the reform, at the risk of fracturing the right-wing party. Aurélien Pradié did not take part in this vote.
PS MP Jérôme Guedj for his part wondered about the cost of this new announcement. "Their primary argument, which is to say that we must generate savings, no longer holds," he said. The Prime Minister had already made a first opening on long careers for LRs, also in the majority in the Senate, just before the arrival of the text in the hemicycle.
Elisabeth Borne also once again urged the opposition on the left to withdraw the "blocking amendments" to allow "a real substantive debate" while there are still around 14,000 to be examined. First aim: La France insoumise, weakened by the various incidents of the session, the latest having led the deputy Aurélien Saintoul to present his "public apologies" to the Minister Olivier Dussopt, treated as "murderer".
Monday evening, the left had announced the withdrawal of a thousand amendments and, on Tuesday, the environmental group went up with 150 additional amendments. But it would be necessary to remove "almost 9,000" to arrive at article 7 devoted to raising the legal retirement age to 64 instead of 62 today, the President of the Assembly estimated on Tuesday. national, Yaël Braun-Pivet (Renaissance). This point, which crystallizes the debates and has several times attracted more than a million people to the streets at the call of united unions, risks never being debated in the hemicycle.
In the meantime, the deputies resumed on Tuesday the examination of article 2 of the reform, setting up an index in companies to fight against unemployment among seniors. Voted or not, Friday at midnight, the pension reform will have finished its course at first reading in the Assembly and will go to the Senate, under the controversial procedure adopted by the government.
La France insoumise is also under pressure from its Nupes partners as well as from the unions. But the group's boss, Mathilde Panot, refused to commit to withdrawing amendments, defending "a shifting strategy of parliamentary resistance". In parallel, a fifth day of action awaits the executive on Thursday, organized at the call of the eight main unions. A "last summons", according to Laurent Escure (Unsa), before a new day on March 7, after the school holidays, which could trigger renewable strikes.
Thursday, the numbers one of the inter-union (CFDT-CGT-FO-CFE-CGC-CFTC-Unsa-Solidaires-FSU) will parade in Albi, symbol of this France of small towns very mobilized against the reform. In Paris, the demonstration will leave from Bastille in the direction of the Place d'Italie. After 963,000 demonstrators according to the authorities, more than 2.5 million according to the unions on Saturday, the crowd should be lower on Thursday "with two zones on vacation", according to Simon Duteil (Solidaires).
