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9:07 a.m., November 2, 2023
The deputies of the Finance Committee voted on Monday for a measure proposed by the PS to abolish the special pension plan for presidents of the Republic, without guarantee that the provision would be retained when resorting to 49.3.
The measure, adopted during the examination of the 2024 state budget in committee, would apply to presidents elected after April 1, 2022, such as Emmanuel Macron. At the end of 2019, in the midst of a standoff surrounding a previous attempt at pension reform, the Elysée indicated that Emmanuel Macron was renouncing in advance his future retirement as President of the Republic, equivalent to the salary of a government advisor. State, at the time 6,220 euros gross monthly.
He would thus be the first president to renounce the benefit of the law of April 3, 1955.
A new 49.3?
However, the special regime still remains in the law. “I think there is no problem” on Emmanuel Macron’s side, but “for the moment, nothing has been done to respect this commitment,” explains socialist MP Christine Pirès Beaune.
“We need the right decree to affiliate Emmanuel Macron to the general pension system,” she asked. In committee, the elected official from Puy-de-Dôme invoked a “duty to set an example” after the “unfair demands” of the 2023 pension reform and its postponement of the legal retirement age to 64 years.
The government will, however, have the freedom to set aside this amendment when it triggers the constitutional weapon of 49.3 in the hemicycle for the adoption without a vote of this expenditure section of the state budget.