The decision on the "clause of the grandfather" - application of the pension reform to only future workers - will be taken "in his time" by Emmanuel Macron and Édouard Philippe and "will prevail to all," said Friday the high pension commissioner, Jean-Paul Delevoye.
"The debate is clearly open"
While the President of the Republic is considering using the "clause of the grandfather" to spare the special regimes, including the SNCF and the RATP, where is a massive strike, Jean-Paul Delevoye had taken a reverse position Wednesday , judging it "impossible" in the Parisian columns. "If you do it for a profession, you have to do it for everybody, a question of fairness, that means that we give up the reform," he declared, triggering the ire of the executive duo.
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After having exchanged by telephone with the Prime Minister, Jean-Paul Delevoye finally "clarified" the situation Friday. "Let it be clear: (...) I wrote in my report that there were three options: does the system apply to the so-called 1963 generation? applies to subsequent generations or is it applicable to new entrants? The debate is clearly open: it is not settled and will be settled in time by the President of the Republic and the Prime Minister " , he said on the sidelines of a trip to the Pas-de-Calais.
"It's a personal position"
"The political decision belongs to the President of the Republic and the Prime Minister and it is essential for all," said Jean-Paul Delevoye. "My role is to contribute to the debate, and the contributions I have made are reflections to fuel the debate - it's a personal position, which I think is necessary to feed the debate," he said. for follow-up. Asked if he had been "reframed" by the Prime Minister, Jean-Paul Delevoye replied: "Do I look like a child punished? Stop this image! A minister is in solidarity with government decisions ".
"I said very clearly and affirmed that at the moment when the decision would be taken by the president of the Republic and the Prime Minister, it would be mine," he concluded.