Paris (AFP)
The president of the finance committee at the National Assembly Eric Woerth (LR) assured on Tuesday that the Republicans will not vote the text on the pension reform "without knowing how it will be financed".
"It is impossible to vote on a text without knowing how it will be financed," explained the deputy from Oise on Public Sénat.
"We cannot have a text that talks about reorganization, then in the next room, have a funding conference," he argued, recalling that a good part of the text refers to orders for the details "while" the devil is in the details, as always ".
"If you are not talking about age, and if you are not talking about funding in a pension reform (...), you are not talking about the basics," said the former budget minister.
The leader of the deputies LR Damien Abad had asked on January 15 in a letter addressed to the Prime Minister to accelerate the work of the conference of financing on the pensions, so that it returns its conclusions before the examination of the reform in first reading at the Assembly which will begin on February 17.
"It is becoming incredibly complex and I do not believe in the reforms that we cannot explain," warned Mr. Woerth.
"And then there is obviously a very different approach from the Republicans", for this reform, in particular "on arduousness", he added.
On this last subject, LR proposes "an approach extremely different from the approach which is advocated today in the text which is a business-by-business approach and which always refers at some point to negotiations by branch".
LR wants to lower the retirement age to 64 and then 65, with compensation for arduous work and small pensions.
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