“There will be no conclusive joint committee without CDI seniors”, warns Senator LR Bruno Retailleau

“There will be no conclusive joint committee without CDI seniors”, warns this Wednesday on France Inter the president of the group Les Républicains in the Senate, Bruno Retailleau. The CMP, made up of 7 senators and 7 deputies, meets this Wednesday to try to find a consensus on the pension reform. But already the boss of the LR senators sets a red line, namely the CDI seniors, voted by the Senate against the advice of the government and despite the opposition of the left.

This new type of permanent contract of “end of career” aims to encourage the recruitment of employees aged at least 60 and exempts the employer from family contributions. Bruno Retailleau ensures that this type of contract “is made to put people who are unemployed back into work”. “We can’t go back two years” legal retirement age “and not worry about the employment of seniors”launches Senator LR from Vendée.

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Bruno Retailleau considers in this context that the government “has interest” to listen to him if he wishes to be able to count on the votes of the parliamentarians of the right during the vote in the National Assembly, where the executive has a relative majority.

The president of the LR group in the Senate also considers that the request made by several Nupes deputies to make the work of the CMP public (request rejected) is a “method of guignolisation of political life”. He sees it as the perfect example of a “show democracy”. For Bruno Retailleau, it is the in camera of the commission which allows the flexibility of the debates. “If you bring in the cameras, you distort this camera and there are no more natural and spontaneous exchanges”he says.