• Elisabeth Borne presented this Tuesday evening her pension reform which increases the retirement age to 64 and the contribution period to 43.

  • The reform will not arrive on the office of the Assembly until the beginning of February, but in this return to school, the subject was already at the heart of the questions to the government.

  • Everyone is already in their role.

“It's a serious day”: the socialist deputy Arthur Delaporte went there frankly to start the press point of his group.

Le Normand did not speak of the re-entry that the National Assembly made today.

He was above all referring to the pension reform, "the most unfair reform of Macron's two five-year terms", which the Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne, presented this Tuesday evening at Matignon.

The time for parliamentary debate will come, from the beginning of February, but this Tuesday afternoon, during the first questions to the government of 2023, the deputies offered themselves a little warm-up.

Elisabeth Borne did not deflower the precise content of her reform: “The few minutes that I have will not allow me to tell you much more”, launched from her first response the Prime Minister.

She responded to Olivier Marleix, the president of the Les Républicains (LR) group.

A smooth start, in short, since the party seems willing to follow the government.

“The French right has always assumed the pension reform, from Jacques Chirac to Nicolas Sarkozy”, warned Olivier Marleix, as if to test his arguments on the support of The right.

The substance of his question was about small pensions.

LR is particularly keen on the minimum pension of 1,200 euros for a full career.

"I have of course heard your group's request, I will have the opportunity to come back to it, we are ready to work on it", replied Elisabeth Borne.

The appointment seems to be taken.

"It's a reform just to pay your gifts to the richest"

The majority was able to count on the support of a symbolic voice

: that of Eric Woeth.

The former LR, now a Renaissance deputy, was in charge of the 2010 pension reform under Nicolas Sarkozy.

He defended the age measure, which notably creates the ire of reformist unions, such as the CFDT.

“Refusing to talk about age in a pension reform is to miss the point.

It's a bit like talking about marriage without talking about love, ”dared the Picard.

A little respite before the questions from the Nupes.

Each group of the left alliance went to the front to ask the government to abandon its reform.

By deploying mainly three arguments.

First on “injustice”.

"You plan to take years from life and life from years," tried, a little poetically, the rebellious Clémence Guetté.

Several also denounced the aims, according to them hidden, of the reform: "It is a reform just to pay your gifts to the richest, there is no urgency to reform", explained the ecologist Sophie Taillé -Polian.

“Since you are talking about democracy…”

Finally, it is on the government's method that the left has dealt its final blow: the passage through a rectifying finance law and not an ordinary law, which constrains the debates.

“You will have to explain and assume that you refuse the time for democratic debate, because you are afraid of it, judges the respected president of the communist group André Chassaigne.

This confiscation of the debate will be a terrible blow to our democracy.

The Communists are even promoting the idea of ​​a referendum on pensions.

Questioned, Elisabeth Borne argued of "intense consultation" with the social partners.

But the best defence, as we well know, is attack: “Since you are talking about democracy, I hope that the debate can take place in the best conditions and without obstruction.

” A word of warning: the rebellious have notably announced 1.

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