When you have been a volunteer firefighter like Aurélien Pradié, you normally know how to recognize the start of a fire. By the smell, the house of the Les Républicains (LR) party is not yet burning, but there are enough ashes left on the ground for the fire to catch fire quickly enough with this incandescent text of the pension reform, examined, from of this Monday, February 6, at the National Assembly in public session.
The deputy for Lot refuses any compromise or half-victory on the issue of long careers, his battle horse which has also become that of his group – he even tabled an amendment to this effect. “It is not a question of tweaking it to exclude part of the French concerned from the device. It’s all or nothing “warned the executive vice-president of LR in the columns of the Sunday newspaper (JDD), February 5. A message addressed to Elisabeth Borne.
Also in the JDDthe Prime Minister claimed to have heard the request of the right. “I hear their wish for those who started working early. We are going to move by extending this long career system to those who started working between the ages of 20 and 21. They will thus be able to leave at the age of 63, in accordance with the rules provided for by the system., develops the head of government. Before encrypting this “gift” on the right. “It is a measure that will cost between 600 million and 1 billion euros per year, and which will affect up to 30,000 people per year. »
“A Deception”
In theory, this concession was to hang up a majority of LR deputies and ward off the specter of recourse to 49.3. If the Les Républicains party obtained satisfaction on this point, its president, Eric Ciotti, promised, on Saturday in The Parisianthat the government project would take “a very large majority” in the ranks of his formation at the Palais-Bourbon.
Problem, Aurélien Pradié still does not buy and even denounces “a deception”. Inflexible, he asks that the derogation include those who have worked at least one quarter (and not at least five) before their 21 years. “If this measure is integrated, we will have saved those who were penalized by the reformcontinues the champion of the social right. Accordingly, I would vote for it. But I say it to the Prime Minister: our amendment is not “watered down”. »
But it has a cost. At Matignon, the calculators have already heated up. Ten billion is too much for the balanced budget of the reform. Even to prevent around twenty elected LRs from copying Mr. Pradié at the time of the vote and thus derailing the agreement negotiated beforehand with Eric Ciotti and the group president in the Assembly, Olivier Marleix. In an interview at Figarothe latter has tried to calm things down with the most prominent of his deputies. “Aurélien said that he would vote if we obtained a maximum duration of 43 annuities for those who started working at age 20 or before.advances the elected official of Eure-et-Loir. If we succeed, I have no doubt that he will keep his word. »
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