Decline in the legal retirement age from 62 to 64, improvement of early departure systems according to hardship, increase in minimum pensions for full careers… The government presented its pension reform project on Tuesday. An essential reform for Olivier Marleix, president of the Republicans in the National Assembly.
Defend your “beliefs”
“We have to work, all collectively, a little more, otherwise the country will become poorer”, he explained at the microphone of Europe 1. For the LR deputy from Eure-et-Loir, there is no doubt: ” We must straighten the country and it is through work that we will get there. However, public opinion seems unconvinced of the usefulness of working longer. According to a survey by the Institut Montaigne published this Friday in the newspaper The Parisian, nearly 93% of working people are against raising the legal retirement age from 62 to 64 years old. And in the population as a whole, the opposition remains strong, including among Republican sympathizers, who oppose it up to 61% in an Odoxa-Agipi poll for Challengespublished on Monday.
However, the right will support the project. “We must have the courage to defend this conviction that we have always carried through work” and “I think it is a conviction that is very widely shared”, insists Olivier Marleix. And to add: “It would be totally incoherent on our part to refuse to enter into a logic of support”, for the reform, while the Republican party has been advocating for several years for an extension of working time, and for a budgetary discipline.
Mitterrand’s reform singled out
“If our country has been impoverished for 40 years, it is because François Mitterrand (President of the Republic from 1981 to 1995) made this pension reform passing the legal retirement age from 65 to 60. Yet , it is said that each year of contributions less costs 10 billion euros. So, when we went from 65 to 60, that meant that it represented an annual cost of 50 billion euros. And now, that’s 50 billion every year, for 40 years. Can you imagine the bill?” indignant the president of the deputies LR.
“So this reform meant more contributions, therefore less competitiveness for our companies, less purchasing power for employees and less pensions paid. In the end, it is a general impoverishment of the country”, he concludes. at the microphone of Europe 1.
From now on, the government pension reform bill must arrive around January 30, estimates a parliamentary source at Franceinfo. But the deputies will not examine the text until next February 6 and will have less than twenty days to debate the project, the government having chosen to present its reform in an amending financing bill social Security.