Paris (AFP)
LFI MP Adrien Quatennens, number two of the movement, said Thursday that the "universality" of the pension system defended by the government as part of its reform was "an alibi" hiding a "goal of lower pensions."
After the intervention of Edouard Philippe on Wednesday, which specified the timetable of the reform, Adrien Quatennens said on Radio Classique have "not the feeling that we make sure that the French see it more clearly", considering that it was an "attempt to buy time".
He denounced the "unacknowledged objective" of the executive: "behind the logic of universality, a priori rather sympathetic (...), equality and universality are an alibi to carry out a decline in pensions or to make the French work much longer ".
For proof according to him, "for the first time we will cap the resources used to finance pensions" while "until now they increased roughly parallel" to the share of seniors in the French population.
The reform project intends to maintain at a constant level - currently 13.8% of GDP - the share of expenditure devoted to the financing of the pension system.
"What do you want us to argue, then, is that the government squared is to cap the share of wealth devoted to pensions while everyone knows that demographically we will have more needs," he insisted. .
Edouard Philippe said Wednesday that the consultation on the reform would end "9 or 10 December" and that the government project would be presented "in the days that follow." "Universality yes, but brutality no," he pleaded, saying "open to dialogue" but "more determined than ever".
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