"Can Aurélien Pradié remain number two in the party? asked the JDD to Bruno Retailleau, president of the LR group in the Senate. Answer: "If he doesn't vote to raise the legal age, no." The MP for Lot, elected on a "popular right" line, has expressed reservations about the government's pension reform plan and demands guarantees on long careers. A position that irritates several LRs, worried about their credibility if they fail to bring about a reform which was nevertheless part of their commitments.
"Being on the right is not being a little less on the left than the left", affirms Bruno Retailleau, according to whom "we must stop the one-upmanship". Because "if the government accepted the 43 annuities for all those who started working before the age of 21 on the sole condition that they had contributed one quarter, that would derail the reform", he adds.
As the text arrives on February 27 in the Senate, "we have decided [...] to open as many days of debate as possible so that the Senate has time to examine this reform in depth". Mr. Retailleau intends to make several proposals, in particular that women who have raised at least three children "have the choice: to work until the age of 64 and benefit from a bonus on their pension or to opt for an early departure at 63".
"We will defend a survivor's pension for orphaned disabled children" and "we also want to shift the age of cancellation of the discount for special schemes by two years". As for the introduction of a capitalization share, "we will open this debate", promises the senator.
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