The President of the Senate, Gérard Larcher, said he was confident on Thursday to find an agreement between LR deputies and senators to support the government’s pension reform project, which he also called on “not to fool the social partners” .
There may be differences in approach. I think that the sensitivity on justice, on the attention in particular to very small pensions, it is something on which there must be a debate with the deputies Les Républicains, declared the second figure of the state on RMC- BFM TV.
The LR group in the National Assembly holds the key to adoption without the constitutional weapon of 49.3 of the pension bill.
The government, whose majority is relative, must present the main lines of its project on Tuesday. The Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne, must meet this weekend with LR officials: party boss Eric Ciotti, deputies Olivier Marleix and senators Bruno Retailleau.
The position of the Senate is serene, he added, recalling what he wants: gradual passage from 62 to 64 years, acceleration of the extension of the contribution period up to 43 years, attention to long careers, attention in particular to the axed careers of women (…), watch out for hardship and let’s be vigilant about the professional training of seniors.
As much justice as possible is one of the concerns we have in the Senate, he insisted.
Could the LR deputies vote for the reform?
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Yes, if the government also listens to (their) proposals, replied Mr. Larcher. Parliamentary debate is about listening to each other, debating draft amendments, it’s not take it or leave it, he said.
He also called to order the executive on the absence of real social dialogue, according to him the cause of the gloom of the current social climate.
In reference to the government’s recent setback on a measure of unemployment insurance reform, he recalled that this point had never been debated either with the social partners or with parliamentarians. We fooled the social partners, we fooled the parliamentarians because we wrote a decree that you did not discuss, he observed.