The government is counting on the LR deputies to have its pension reform adopted, but this reinforcement seems increasingly uncertain… The political editorial by Renaud Dély.
The right never ceases to tear itself apart. For, against, neither for nor against… The Republican deputies are unable to reach a common position. The president of the party, Éric Ciotti, banged his fist on the table on Tuesday and denounced the attitudes contrary to the unity and the gathering of our political family. But nothing helps.
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One more proof that in politics, you don’t need to be a big family to afford slingers. LR is now a small party with less than 5% of the presidential vote, only 62 deputies, and almost 50 shades of gray, gray-blue of course, about pensions. Eric Ciotti and the boss of the group of deputies, Olivier Marleix, had barely topped with Elisabeth Borne that they were immediately disavowed by part of their troops.
“Demagogic flight forward”
Elisabeth Borne has however made concessions to them. And the latest is the extension of the long career system to those who started working between the ages of 20 and 21. Except that the deputy LR of the Lot, Aurélien Pradié demands that the majority resume to the comma his amendment which stipulates that a single quarter contributed before the age of 21 would allow retirement after 43 annuities. The executive, he strangles himself by repeating that it would cost 10 billion euros! The boss of LR senators, Bruno Retailleau, protests a “demagogic headlong rush“, but Aurélien Pradié garners support for the simple reason that the right no longer knows where she lives.
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63 years old, 64 years old for LR senators, 65 as proposed by their candidate for the Elysée, Valérie Pécresse, there is something for everyone. Basically, the Republicans no longer have any ideological coherence. And tactically, they have no choice but between two bad solutions: fly to the aid of the government, or vote against a reform they proposed recently to force Elisabeth Borne to draw 49-3. The fate of the reform may therefore depend on a handful of right-wing deputies, who are legitimate but fairly unrepresentative of the overall state of opinion.
This is not necessarily a sign of good democratic health, when at the same time, the united unions which have repeatedly mobilized processions of more than a million people seem to be preaching in the desert.