Paris (AFP)
"The parliamentarians will be sufficiently enlightened" on the future pension system and its financing to be able to vote conscientiously on the reform project, assured Tuesday the Minister of Relations with the Parliament Marc Fesneau.
"The parliamentarians will have the elements on the arrival system, the so-called target system, they will have hypotheses and elements on the proposed transitions, and after, according to the discussions with the social partners, will come to add the part of financing which only concerns the mechanism between today and 2027 ", he explained on RFI.
On the right as on the left, the parliamentary opposition is worried about having to examine from February 17 "a text with holes" according to it, which would lack precise elements on the question of financing, while the social partners must find by the end of April, after a conference, the means to guarantee the financial equilibrium of the system in 2027.
"The question of financing which is asked of the social partners is the question of financing the return to balance for 2027 in the current system", underlined Mr. Fesneau, "therefore it is not a huge hole".
"The question of the financing of the target system, of the universal points system" is not "not the subject", he insisted, stressing that for this part "devices are provided for in the text" , and '"an impact study", "very voluminous", and which "allows everyone to feed the hypotheses on which the new system is built", "is on the table".
With the financing conference, "simply, we give ourselves the time, with the social partners, to see if there are other ways and means than those laid down by the Prime Minister," argued the minister.
And to those who complain of "holes" in the text, he replied that "we cannot both say that we must trust social democracy and each time back down or say that we should not go".
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