Alexandre Chauveau
The new president of the Republicans, Éric Ciotti, is meeting Élisabeth Borne this Wednesday to discuss pension reform. If he thought he had found a compromise with his group around a departure at 64, it was without counting the veto deposited by Aurélien Pradié, followed by a third of the LRs, who opposes any postponement of the age departure.
At Matignon, Élisabeth Borne is continuing her consultations with group leaders on pension reform. This Wednesday morning it is with the brand new president of the Republicans, Éric Ciotti, that the Prime Minister must meet. He defends the idea of a reform too. The problem is that he will have to defend a position which is not necessarily shared by all LR deputies.
A third of the LR group against any postponement of the retirement age
Eric Ciotti will still plead the need for a reform with a decline in the retirement age. But the president of the Republicans has not yet made his choice between 63, 64 or 65 years old. Éric Ciotti has worked on the different scenarios and is now waiting to see the government’s proposals on hardship, the consideration of long careers or the level of increase in small pensions. On Monday, in a group meeting, a compromise was close to being found between LR deputies around a departure at 64 by 2032.
Until Aurélien Pradié, deputy for Lot, vetoed any postponement of the starting age, followed by nearly a third of the group. The cleavage takes place between the partisans of what the right has been defending for several years and who are therefore in favor of this reform, and the deputies from more popular constituencies, more hostile to working longer. In any case, this will be the first test for Eric Ciotti in his new role: to embody the compromise, he who is known for his clear-cut positions on the sovereign as on the economy.