the Senate Social Affairs Committee proposes to reinstate the pension reform | EUROtoday

Pension reform restored, advantages frozen in 2026… The senators of the Social Affairs Committee proposed, Saturday, November 15, to return to quite a few measures voted within the National Assembly for the Social Security price range, together with the “suspension” of the Borne pension reform.

If the highlight was on the National Assembly in current days, the Senate acquired to the guts of the matter on the price range, with the examination of the Social Security financing invoice in committee.

This preliminary stage allowed senators from the best and the middle, a big majority within the Upper House, to set the tone on their intentions with a view to inspecting the textual content in a public session, scheduled for Wednesday. Unsurprisingly, the senatorial majority wished to mark its main disagreement with the flagship measure of the invoice: the “suspension” till January 2028 of the pension reform elevating the authorized retirement age to 64 years.

“Perlimpinpin powder”

Conceded by the Prime Minister, Sébastien Lecornu, to the Socialists, it was largely deleted by the senators in committee, Agence France-Presse (AFP) discovered from a number of members. “It’s perlimpinpin powder”regretted in committee Republican senator (LR) Pascale Gruny, who famous that the financing of the measure would rely “on the retirees themselves”. “The Senate cannot deny itself a reform that it has supported for years”assumes accountability for the centrist normal rapporteur Elisabeth Doineau at AFP.

The left strongly denounced this choice. “The senatorial majority puts itself in a position of refusing any agreement and any compromise”regretted Bernard Jomier (socialist group), expressing concern to the AFP a couple of “very clear stiffening” from the best and the centrists. “When we destroy in one chamber everything that was done in the other chamber of Parliament, it is not a construction process”protested the ecologist Anne Souyris.

This reinstatement doesn’t permit us to prejudge the result of the debates on this textual content, which can proceed its journey by way of Parliament till the start of December. The senators may even begin on Wednesday from the textual content which was transmitted to them, that’s to say from the model modified in current days by the deputies earlier than the interruption of the debates. All the amendments adopted in committee on Saturday will subsequently need to be submitted to the Senate as a complete for a vote once more.

Unpopular measures

The variations with the deputies promise to be quite a few. On Saturday, senators proposed in committee the freezing, in 2026, of social advantages, often listed to inflation. The Assembly largely eliminated the measure throughout its consideration.

The freezing of retirement pensions, additionally eliminated by the deputies, was additionally reinstated in committee, even when it was chosen to protect retirement pensions beneath 1,400 euros, in keeping with a number of members.

The Senate says it is able to tackle these unpopular measures within the identify of restoring Social Security accounts. “Our ambition is to clean up everything that seems aberrant to us in terms of new levies and increased deficit, to stay on track with a deficit of 17.5 billion euros” of Social Security, says centrist Olivier Henno.

A deficit of greater than 24 billion euros

The work of the Senate Social Affairs Committee has even resulted, at this stage, in decreasing the “Secu” deficit to fifteen.1 billion euros, in keeping with the rapporteurs’ presentation consulted by AFP. The goal of 17.5 billion, initially set by the federal government, was largely exceeded after the passage of the textual content within the Assembly. According to the Minister of Labor, Jean-Pierre Farandou, the deficit is greater than 24 billion euros; this estimate is shared by the providers of the Assembly in addition to these of the Senate.

Several dozen amendments eradicating measures added by the National Assembly have been adopted on Saturday morning, which suggests the vote within the Senate of a replica of the “Secu” price range fairly near the federal government’s preliminary proposal.

The senators additionally opposed in committee one other measure gained by the socialist deputies: the rise within the CSG levied particularly on capital revenue (dividends, worker financial savings, housing financial savings plans, and so forth.), which was to usher in 2.8 billion euros in 2026.