The Senate, dominated by the right, voted on Thursday to extend the long career system of the pension reform to those who started working between the ages of 20 and 21, for an early departure at 63 years old.
Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne said she was in favor of this measure from the beginning of February, in response to a request from LR deputies. The senators validated various amendments in this direction (of the ecologists, of Renaissance and of the radical majority RDSE) whereas the Assembly had not had time to decide.
Currently, a career start before the age of 20 can allow an early retirement of two years, and an entry into working life before the age of 16 can give the right to an early retirement of four years. The reform project provides that this device will be adapted: those who start before the age of 20 will be able to leave two years earlier, that is to say 62 years; those who started before 18 will be able to leave at 60, etc.
It’s complicated, extremely complicated, admitted the Minister of Labor Olivier Dussopt, pressed with questions from the left-wing parliamentarians. I have the impression that we are voting blind, launched the socialist Claude Raynal.
The Senate rejected amendments aimed at further extending the long career scheme, in particular to demand a maximum of 43 years of contribution for those who started working early. This is what the deputy LR Aurlien Pradi more or less asked, but the boss of the senators LR Bruno Retailleau judges that this makes our system lose its meaning.
Mr. Dussopt also called for maintaining a financial balance in the reform, and referred to the discussions which will take place next week between deputies and senators to find a compromise on the entire bill.
While the socialist Serge Mrillou accused the minister of being an accountant and a financier, without hesitation, the interested party blamed him in return, evoking a mlenchonisation of some and arousing strong protests on the left.
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