The Senate passed a pension reform preceded by a period of negotiations which should take into account hardship, long careers and employment of seniors.
Raising the retirement age to 64, cancellation of the Agirc-Arrco transfer, “outstanding contribution“analytical labs… The Senate, with a majority on the right, voted its version of the Social Security budget for 2023 on Tuesday, worried about the “prognosisof the healthcare system. The vote was acquired by 193 votes “for“, 102 “versusand 46 abstentions.
But the significant changes made by the senators will certainly not be retained in the end by the government, using Article 49.3 of the Constitution before the National Assembly. This Social Security financing bill (PLFSS) anticipates a sharp drop in the deficit to 7.2 billion euros in 2023 (17.8 billion this year), thanks to the melting of the bill linked to Covid-19 .
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The senatorial majority wished “provide solutions where the government hesitates and struggles to reform the country“, judged the LR group. Constant on this file for several years, the Senate voted a pension reform preceded by a period of negotiations which should take into account hardship, long careers and employment of seniors. In the event of failure, the right provides for an extension of the contribution period, and the gradual postponement from 62 to 64 years of the legal age of departure.
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Among the other modified sensitive points, the Senate opposed the controversial project to transfer the collection of contributions from the Agirc-Arrco supplementary pension plan to Urssaf. He voted aoutstanding contributionof medical analysis laboratories to the tune of 250 million euros, presented as “more justthan the savings that the government still intends to impose on them, despite a massive strike.
Last warning shot: the Senate rejected the national health insurance spending target for 2023 (Ondam), proposed at 244 billion euros. “An incomprehensible deletionfor Martin Lévrier, whose majority Renaissance RDPI group abstained on the revised text. “Ondam cannot remain such a black box any longer“Argued the LR president of the Social Affairs Committee Catherine Deroche, saying her weariness”to have to beg for figures which are nevertheless due to us“.
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The centrist Olivier Henno said he wanted “bear witness to the fragility of our health system and the urgency of debating a major health law“. For Bernard Fialaire (RDSE with a radical majority), the draft budget “more like compression to contain hemorrhage than comprehensive disease management“.
From Thursday, the Senate will embark on the examination at first reading of the draft state budget for 2023, in a version remodeled by the government after also using 49.3 in the Assembly. Based on optimistic economic assumptions, this draft budget strikes a balance between the desire to “protect» the French against soaring energy prices and hope not to increase the debt.
The Chamber of Territories will pay particular attention to measures concerning communities. The general rapporteur Jean-François Husson (LR) will propose to postpone by one year the planned abolition of the CVAE, a tax on companies, “in particular for installing a compensation device“.