Pension reform in France: LaREM going or not going?
From left to right: the leader of the deputies of the majority Christophe Castaner, the President of the National Assembly Richard Ferrand and the Prime Minister Jean Castex.
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Will Emmanuel Macron, yes or no, try to reform pensions before the presidential election next April?
The French head of state promised it in July, but only when the epidemic situation was under control.
A track arrives on the table at the Élysée, but it does not necessarily get carried away within the majority.
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With our special correspondent in Angers,
Anthony Lattier
Why not abolish, before the presidential election, the special schemes and introduce a minimum pension of 1,000 euros initially, then postpone the in-depth reform of the pension system until later?
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This scenario does not really get carried away within the presidential majority, as RFI observed in Angers, where the parliamentary days of the presidential party La République en Marche are held.
However, in the eyes of the deputy LaREM Aurore Bergé, it would be a good way to show that the majority is still in action, "
to demonstrate that until the end of the five-year term, we can continue to transform, to reform the country, and that beyond the health crisis there are other issues that concern the parliamentary majority, the President of the Republic and the French.
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It is also a way of pulling the rug out from under the right wing, some say.
Despite everything, the head of government Jean Castex, who came from it, judged this Monday, September 6 that the moment was badly chosen.
This is also the opinion of the Secretary of State for European Affairs, Clément Beaune.
On content and on substance, there is no doubt that reform will be necessary at some point.
The given moment, honestly, cannot be defined now in a health context, in a context that is still volatile, uncertain.
Be careful not to wake up anger, warns the leader of the senators La République en Marche François Patriat:
Special special diets are not a small end, they are a big end.
Because it does not only concern the SNCF, it concerns all the liberal professions, all the self-employed who today are attached to their regimes.
And we have seen how they have demonstrated in recent years to know that it will not be able to happen like that at the bend of an amendment to the finance law.
Less adventurous than Emmanuel Macron, the tenors of the majority plead to repel any offensive on post-presidential pensions.
► To reread: The pension reform arouses unease among French deputies
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