The mayor of Paris wants to maintain the legal age of departure at 62 years. “People have understood” that “what awaits them is more precariousness”, estimates the elected socialist while the inter-union calls for a new day of strike this Tuesday.
“Parliament is the receptacle of anger, indignation, concern, anxiety of the country”, estimates the socialist mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, Tuesday February 7 on franceinfo, the day after the start of the examination in public session of the pension reform, in the National Assembly. In an overheated hemicycle, the deputies said “no” to the motion to reject the New Popular, Economic and Social Union (Nupes) and to the request of the National Rally (RN) for a referendum on this reform.
Pension reform “Many French men and women voted for Emmanuel Macron to avoid the far right, not for the pension reform. It’s such an unfair reform,” says Anne Hidalgo. “The €1,200 is a decoy ”, criticizes the mayor of Paris. pic.twitter.com/FgqUgJhMHu
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The former presidential candidate “think” Nevertheless “that it is better to speak politely”. “I am not in the vociferations”she explains, recalling that she “preside over an assembly”, the Council of Paris, which, in terms of lively debate, “well worth the Assembly”. That said, “the subject is not the show which sometimes looks and is pitiful” at the Bourbon Palace.
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“The subject is the content of what is offered to the French”, continues Anne Hidalgo. Thus, the pension reform is, according to her, “an unprecedented regression”. Proof, “people are in the street” And “there is union unity for the first time in a very long time”, underlines the mayor of Paris, while the inter-union calls this Tuesday for a third day of mobilization against the government bill. “People have understood” that “what awaits them is more precariousness”she says.
“Those who will pay the high price are the ‘front line’ workers, those who have had cut careers, women of course, or even seniors”
Anne Hidalgoat franceinfo
Nothing in the reform of the government satisfies the socialist city councilor: “I am for us not to touch on the question of the starting age, I am for 62 years”she says while the executive wants to bring it to 64 years old by 2030. The Nupes, she defended retirement at 60 years old during the last legislative elections.
As for the contribution period, “I am not for us to touch on this subject”, specifies Anne Hidalgo. The text plans to reach 43 years of contribution more quickly to benefit from a full pension. The mayor of Paris also wishes “that we restore the criteria of arduousness, that we take into account long careers, difficult jobs”. ” So many things that have been deleted by whom? Emmanuel Macron”she says without mentioning the extension of the long career system to people who started working between the ages of 20 and 21 announced by Elisabeth Borne on Sunday.