Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne announced on Saturday February 4 that people who started working between the ages of 20 and 21 will be able to retire at 63, not 64. “We are going to move by extending this long career scheme to those who started working between the ages of 20 and 21. They will thus be able to leave at 63, “said the head of government, stressing that “we hear” the request of right-wing elected officials. A step forward towards the opposition and the unions, which does not seem sufficient.
This announcement “is not the” expected response “to the massive mobilization observed”, declared Laurent Berger, this Sunday, on France Inter. “The basic problem of this reform is the postponement of the legal age to 64, which accentuates the inequalities inherent in the world of work”, for “women, people who started working early, who arduous jobs, careers cut or who are fired from their job “a few years from their retirement, underlined the boss of the CFDT. “Then we try to put some patches on. »
On the Medef side, its vice-president Dominique Carlac’h cannot “say if this is good or bad news”, she declared on France Info. But “the good news is that we are making progress on the idea of ??doing the reform,” she continued.
This concession is not enough for Xavier Bertrand to vote in favor of the bill. Invited on BFMTV, he denounced “a sham response” from the executive. “For me, this is the first condition for the reform to become more acceptable. There, it is technique but it is an artifice. And in a way, Ms. Borne closes the door to all LR deputies, who indicated with a very consensual amendment: “43 annuities, we retire before 64 years old”, “he said. . The LR deputy for Pas-de-Calais Pierre-Henri Dumont, also said, on BFMTV, Sunday, “very dissatisfied” with this proposal.
The whole right, however, does not share this opinion, like Éric Ciotti. In Le Parisien, he repeated that he wanted to “vote a pension reform”, welcoming the “advances” obtained and pointing to the subject of long careers.
