Bruno Retailleau, president of the LR group in the Senate, listed his “requirementsfor pension reform. Ludovic Marin / AFP
Two days before the examination of the pension bill in the Senate, President LR in the upper house judges this reform “necessary” but “insufficient”.
Two days before the Senate’s examination of the pension bill, Bruno Retailleau (LR) indicated “wish to vote (the text), after changing it“, in particular in order to “do not widen the deficits, but manage to fill them“. But the president of the Les Républicains group in the upper house, where the right and the center are in the majority, listed his “requirementsand details how his political family plans to modify the text.
“We intend to propose two options to the government: either a 5% premium for mothers who have reached both a full career and the legal age, or an early departure at 63“, added Bruno Retailleau, also evoking the idea of a “end-of-career contract which would be exempt from family contributions» for employees who are at least 60 years old.
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“A reform first budgetary”
For Bruno Retailleau, “if this reform is necessary”, it “is not sufficient“. The president of the LR group in the Senate emphasizes the need to make up for the deficits. “It is primarily a budgetary reform aimed at ensuring the sustainability of the pay-as-you-go system. If tomorrow it goes bankrupt, it would be “every man for himself” and it is the most modest French people who would lose the most.“. In addition, the pension reformmust tackle the root of the problem: the demographic imbalance and therefore the situation of mothers“.
The day before, at the Salon de l’Agriculture, the President of the Republic declared “wish that the Senate could enrich the text” “with what seems usefulciting family policy and women’s rights.