It’s D-Day. Elisabeth Borne presents the highly controversial and long-awaited government project to reform the pension system, Tuesday, January 10. The Prime Minister will detail this plan during a press conference, before being the guest of the “20 Hours” of France 2, then of the franceinfo channel, where she will answer questions from Internet users and viewers.
In addition to the terms of the reform, the head of government will be questioned on the united trade union front which is advancing against the executive’s project. Ulcered by the probable postponement of the retirement age to 64 and despite promises in terms of support for the employment of seniors or taking into account hardship, theUnions are already planning to demonstrate against the text. Follow the announcements of Elisabeth Borne in our live.
Towards a postponement to 64? After considering raising the legal age of departure to 65 by 2031, the government now favors a decline to 64, learned France Télévisions on Sunday, from a source close to the executive. According to several concordant sources within the government, the timetable for the reform would be established as follows: the legal age would be shifted to 63 years in 2027, then 64 years by 2030.
An agreement with LR? Failing to convince the unions, the government hopes to rally the elected LR, divided on this reform yet close to what the Senate votes each year, with a majority on the right. LR boss Eric Ciotti says he is ready, in the JDDat “vote for a just reform” and spread over time, with a retirement age raised to 64 in 2032 and a minimum of 1,200 euros, including for current retirees. An LR vote could avoid the use of Article 49.3 of the Constitution to adopt the reform, which should go through a bill for the amending financing of Social Security.
What’s the calendar ? The text will be presented to the Council of Ministers on January 23. The unions, which are meeting on Tuesday evening, plan to mobilize around this date, while on the left the Nupes is holding a meeting on January 10 and 17 and the youth organizations, supported by LFI, are demonstrating on the 21st. law must be examined in committee at the National Assembly from January 30 and in the hemicycle from February 6.