On the issue of pensions, the convergences between the executive and the right are reappearing in broad daylight. From Monday, November 7, the Senate will examine in session the Social Security financing bill (PLFSS) for 2023. Majority in this assembly, the elected representatives of the groups Les Républicains (LR) and Union centriste (UC) should adopt an amendment making it possible to shift the age of entitlement to a pension from 62 to 64 years. A measure very close to that defended by Emmanuel Macron, as part of a reform which will be presented at the beginning of 2023, in principle.
The provision that will be debated at the Palais du Luxembourg is supported by René-Paul Savary, Senator LR de la Marne. It provides for two steps. First, a “national agreement for the employment of seniors and the safeguard of the pension system” in which would participate personalities from various backgrounds (social partners, representatives of the State, family and pensioner associations, experts). Its mission would be to formulate proposals in favor of keeping sixty-year-old workers active and rebalancing the financial balance of the « old age branch (…) by 2033”.
If the members of the convention were unable to agree, the legislator would regain control in order to modify several parameters. Among the sliders moved, there would be the legal retirement age, which would therefore increase from 62 to 64 years. The law of January 2014, known as the “Touraine law”, would also come into force more quickly than expected: thus, the contribution period required for the full rate would be increased to forty-three years from the 1967 generation (instead of the 1973 generation).
An autumnal ritual
This initiative does not come as a surprise. “For the fourth year” consecutively, it takes up ideas that right-wing and center-right elected officials at the Luxembourg Palace had tried to introduce through amendments to the PLFSS, as Gérard Larcher, President (LR) of the Senate, recalls in an interview daily The Parisian of Monday. “We are constantly pushing the measures that we believe are necessary, the primary objective being to guarantee the purchasing power of pensions by restoring the financial viability of the pension system”confides Bruno Retailleau, the president of the LR group.
On this theme, right-wing senators show unity, unlike their colleagues who sit in the National Assembly. Thus, Aurélien Pradié, LR deputy for Lot, advocates a system where pensions would be calculated according to the number of years worked, without raising the retirement age. For his part, Eric Ciotti, elected in the Alpes-Maritimes, is campaigning for a solution ” intermediate ” in which people could choose between leaving at age 65 and an increase in the number of annuities required to be eligible for the full rate.
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