Final negotiations to avoid a passage in force? While the challenge to the pension reform seems to be intensifying, after a day of strong mobilization in the street on Tuesday, that the revolt is also pointing its nose in the ranks of the presidential majority, Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne receives this Wednesday morning Éric Ciotti and Olivier Marleix.
The head of government knows it: impossible to vote for the reform without the support of LR parliamentarians. However, if the latter were satisfied with the latest developments presented by the government – in particular on the decline from 65 to 64 years or the minimum pension at 1,200 euros gross – there are still several sticking points. It is the device which concerns long careers which worries the right the most, whereas as it stands, the reform project plans to make those who started working very early, sometimes up to 44 years, contribute. A measure considered socially unfair, and on which the right has decided not to let go.
Last week, after their group meeting at the National Assembly, Olivier Marleix thus sent an email to Elisabeth Borne, arguing that it would be complicated for her family to vote for a reform that would not take into account this “career” aspect. long”. Second important point for Marleix and Ciotti, in tune with the subject, the insertion of a review clause by 2027, to measure the economic gains made possible by the reform, in order to confirm or not the need, for example, to continue raising the legal retirement age to 64, planned for 2030.
The government knows it: without the sixty or so Republican deputies, it would be unthinkable to pass the mother of the reforms of this start of the five-year term without having, again, recourse to 49.3. What he wants to avoid.