“We consider that the basis of an agreement is on the table” with LR senators, says Olivier Véran

“I observe that the [sénateurs] The Republicans have already voted several consecutive years in the Social Security budgets for provisions that look very similar to what we are proposing today “ as part of the pension reform, launches Olivier Véran, the government spokesperson, this Thursday on France Inter, a week before the examination of the reform in the Senate.

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“The basis of a deal is on the table”according to the Minister for Democratic Renewal who hopes that “this time” the text can be “voted by senators”. Olivier Véran promises that the government will be “listening to senators, as [il l’a] been with the deputies”standing “ready to amend, modify and improve our text where it makes sense“.

The spokesperson for the executive mentioned in particular the subject of the senior index, “rejected unfortunately” by deputies. “We consider that this article has its place” in the bill, he said. He also considers that “the senators are intended to move in the direction of improving the employment of seniors in the company”. “What is essential is that this subject of the place of our seniors in the company, what skills they can bring, how they can train and develop in careers and missions, all of this can materialize through the law”he adds.

This examination in the Senate will take place after several weeks of mobilization of the Intersyndicale, whose next day of action is scheduled for March 7. Olivier Véran justifies this mobilization in the street by “the measure of the elongation of the age [de départ à la retraite] at 64 [qui] crush everything”, according to him. The Minister assures us that if he were “came to present a bill on the revaluation of small retirement pensions, we would have the opinion with us”. Gold “as soon as the measure at age 64 is rejected by a majority of opinion, all the measures, however well received by the population, have difficulty finding a positive echo”concludes Olivier Véran.