"I asked the Prime Minister the conditions for this reform to see the light of day," the boss of LR told the press after a meeting of nearly an hour at Matignon with Ms. Borne devoted to the pension reform.
"Today, our pay-as-you-go pension system is threatened given the demographic evolution. There is a need for reform", he assured, recalling that the LR group had "the key" to the National Assembly where the presidential majority needs its support to pass the text.
"We measure that going to 65 immediately is probably too brutal compared to the situation that the French are experiencing", explained the deputy of the Alpes-Maritimes, recalling that "many French people suffer with an inflation that today burdens their purchasing power".
Mr. Ciotti and Borne "agreed" to meet at the start of the year, a meeting which will allow the right to "see how the government was going to listen" to LR's proposals, "which will condition our vote", he said. -He underlines.
Between opposition to Emmanuel Macron and the need to remain credible on this marker theme of the right, the right is under pressure and is looking for a common line while the government must present its project on January 10.
The leader of the LR senators, Bruno Retailleau, unsuccessful candidate for the presidency of LR, warned on Tuesday that his party would sink "in the quicksand of denial" if he did not vote to postpone the legal age of departure to retirement.
For his part, the leader of the deputies Olivier Marleix assured that he would not "support" the reform if it included the postponement of the legal age of departure to 65, a "red cloth", "too brutal".
The leader of the LR deputies Olivier Marleix after a meeting at the Hotel Matignon, October 13, 2022 in Paris © Bertrand GUAY / AFP / Archives
In the Senate, the right-wing majority adopted as every year at the beginning of November a text providing for raising the legal age to 64 from the 1967 generation.
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