For President LR of the Hauts-de-France region, the government must take into account the current demonstrations. He would vote for the reform if certain points on long careers and the retirement of women were improved, he says.
Xavier Bertrand assures Saturday February 11 on France Inter not to have “never hesitated” whether or not to remain a member of his Les Républicains party. “I am here, I am staying here”, he decides, without ambiguity. The LR president of the Hauts-de France region has shown himself in recent days against the grain of his political family, making known his disagreement with the text of the pension reform despite the call for unity from certain tenors of the LR .
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“The account is not there”believes Xavier Bertrand, denouncing “the moment” chosen by the government to implement its reform, just like “the bottom” Bill. “You have union unanimity against this reform, all the unions, without exception. Then you have three quarters of the French who are against this reform, it’s unheard of!”, he says on the occasion of the fourth day of action against the text, this Saturday. Faced with this sling, Xavier Bertrand warns the executive.
“If they do not take into account what the French people who are demonstrating are asking for, what many parliamentarians are asking for, we will have, at the end of this reform, an even more pronounced, more worrying divorce between the French and those who govern us.”
Xavier-Bertrandat France Inter
Three conditions to vote for the reform
Xavier Bertrand defends the current pay-as-you-go pension system but believes that it has “need, to be saved”that we “work longer”. The president of Hauts-de-France assures that he would vote for the reform “on three conditions”full-rate retirement from the age of 43 for those who started working before the age of 21, the end of special schemes and, finally, the possibility for women who have not had a full career of to retire “two years earlier than today’s 67”.
Despite his frank disagreement with the text, as it stands, which he also shares with LR deputy Aurélien Pradié, Xavier Bertrand refuses to talk about “fracture” within the Republicans, evoking only “a divergence on how to hustle the government to listen”. Wednesday February 8 on France Inter, Gérard Larcher, called on all LRs to “vote the law” reminding Aurélien Pradié that “if he really feels part of our political family, he must – at some point – make the decision to pass the law”.