oppositions and unions criticize the financing chosen by the chief | EUROtoday

After the federal government introduced within the Council of Ministers, Thursday, October 23, the suspension of the pension reform within the draft Social Security funds for the 12 months 2026, unions and oppositions expressed robust criticism of the financing of this measure. The government is especially calling on complementary medical health insurance and retirees to finance this measure.

To financially stability this suspension of the reform adopted in 2023, the federal government determined that the under-indexation of retirement pensions in relation to inflation, initially deliberate at 0.4 factors, could be elevated by an extra 0.5 factors in 2027. For that 12 months, the federal government is relying on inflation (excluding tobacco) of 1.75%. The contribution charge of complementary organizations (mutual societies, medical health insurance, and so forth.) will enhance from 2.05% to 2.25% in 2026.

“It is not possible that the deindexation of pensions will provide almost two blank years for retirees in 2026 and 2027. The most modest cannot support such a measure”reacted to Agence France-Presse, Yvan Ricordeau, deputy secretary common of the CFDT. “We are making current and future retirees pay for a microsuspension of the reform”lamented Denis Gravouil, confederal secretary of the CGT. Rémi Servot, of the National Association of Retirees (ANR), described the financing challenge as“quite scandalous”.

On the left, La France insoumise (LFI) denounced “a fool’s game”. “Retirees will leave three months earlier but with a lower pension”famous the president of the finance committee, Eric Coquerel. LFI rapidly shifted the blame to the socialists who determined to not instantly censor the federal government of Sébastien Lecornu, significantly towards the promise of a suspension of the Borne reform. “Well done PS! »the coordinator of the movement, Manuel Bompard, joked about X.

“Retirees are quite heavily hit by this budget”, in keeping with the RN

“What is the objective behind this? »asked the president of the Ecologist and Social group in the National Assembly, Cyrielle Chatelain, for whom the government wants to make “this ultimately unbearable postponement”.

The National Rally (RN), additionally in favor of the suspension, additionally denounced the financing of the measure. “They always hit the same ones. And in this case, obviously, retirees are quite heavily hit by this budget”denounced, from the National Assembly, the president of the RN deputies, Marine Le Pen. “The question is how the PS will vote for this? How are the LRs going to vote on this? »she added, without specifying whether her party could abstain on the Social Security budget project in order to let the suspension pass.

In a climate already marked by suspicion as to the objectives of the executive, the head of state, Emmanuel Macron, had caused trouble on Tuesday by declaring from Slovenia that the reform was neither “repealed” neither “suspended”on the threat of weakening his prime minister. The entourage of the President of the Republic has, nevertheless, since denied any dispute between the 2 heads of the chief, explaining that he had solely meant that the reform couldn’t be suspended. “ad vitam” with regard to the financing wants of the system.

Matignon, in a press launch, praised a “assure of readability and transparency [dont] the inscription within the preliminary textual content”, demanded by the RN and the left “aims to guarantee the holding of a fair and sincere parliamentary debate”while the examination of the PLFSS begins Monday in Parliament.

As a reminder, Sébastien Lecornu’s project shifts the application of the Borne reform from 2023 in time. It suspends the progression towards age 64 until January 2028, as does the increase in the number of quarters to contribute in order to start at full rate. This suspension will cost 100 million euros in 2026 and 1.4 billion euros in 2027, according to the amending letter revealed Wednesday by the economic daily Les Echos and of which The World got a copy.