“Coherent” and “urgent”: majority deputies, including the general rapporteur for the Social Security budget Stéphanie Rist, plead for the pension reform promised by Emmanuel Macron to be adopted as soon as this budget text is examined at the ‘fall.
I believe this reform is necessary and it would be coherent to pass it in the coming weeks in relation to the objective of full employment and at a time when we need to be able to finance new rights such as for old age, said Thursday the ‘AFP Ms. Rist, however that the executive must decide the calendar.
The government is studying all avenues to pass the pension reform, including in the context of the Social Security budget bill for 2023, its spokesman Olivier Vran said on Wednesday.
On the ground, people see that it is a necessity, according to Ms. Rist, elected from Loiret. Among the majority MEPs, there is no consensus on the timetable for a reform taking place as of the autumn, taking into account in particular the prevailing social climate, but there is a consensus on the substance of the reform itself because we we are committed to the subject, she notes.
According to another official in the National Assembly, there is an interest in integrating the reform into the Social Security budget to explain that precisely we have a lot of social expenditure and that, to finance them, we can go through an age measure.
On the other hand, on the more structural pension reforms, it is absolutely necessary to take the time to negotiate, he adds, hoping for a quick decision.
The social security financing bill (PLFSS) must be presented to the Council of Ministers on September 26, debated in committee at the National Assembly and then from October 20 in the Chamber for first reading.
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It is technically possible to integrate the pension reform for example by way of amendment, but the unions and the left warn against a provocation.
President Emmanuel Macron said earlier this week that the pension reform could not wait any longer and should come into force in the summer of 2023.
He had undertaken during the presidential election campaign to shift the legal starting age to 65 years, against 62 currently, at the rate of four months per year until the mid-2030s. It is no longer necessarily a question of a such postponement, but in particular an extension of the duration of contributions.