The Minister of Labor told the newspaper “Le Parisien” on Sunday that the government’s text would make “no losers”.
“The pension reform will not make losers”said Sunday the Minister of Labor, Olivier Dussopt, at the Parisian. Interviewed on Monday March 6 in “C à vous” on France 5, Elisabeth Borne somewhat nuanced this position. “If you say they are losers, yes, there are French people who will have to work progressively longer”reacted the Prime Minister. According to the head of government, if we do not raise the retirement age, “seither we lower pensions, or we increase social security contributions. You have to put options on the table.”
Elisabeth Borne notably returned to the remarks of Olivier Dussopt, who had presented the government’s text as a “left-wing reform”still in the ParisianSunday. “I don’t know if it’s a reform of the right or of the left”, To nuanced the Prime Minister. She specifies that “in the reform (…), we combine an acceleration of the reform carried out by Marisol Touraine and a shift in the legal age, a proposal brought to the Senate in a compromise carried by the centrists”.
It is “important that this law (be) debated”
The Prime Minister also spoke about the situation of women, who “will have to work 18 months longer, compared to two years longer for men”, with the reform. According to her, “the challenge for women is less to leave earlier than men than to have better pensions”struggling “for professional equality”.
Elisabeth Borne evaded the question of recourse to article 49.3, which allows the government to pass the text, without a vote, in the National Assembly. “I want this law to be passed, that everyone can take their responsibilities. It is important that this law can be debated in the Senate and that we can vote for it”she defended.
On the eve of the mobilization of Tuesday March 7, she also affirmed that theare French “the most modest” would be “the first penalized” by strikes. The Prime Minister ruled that the use of the expression “bring France to its knees” was “severe” And “not responsible” in reaction to the words of the general secretary of the CGT Chimie Emmanuel Lépine.