The Senate votes in the middle of the night to postpone the legal retirement age to 64 – sortaparis

During his speech, Emmanuel Macron felt that this was not the time to relaunch the pension reform. However, that night from Friday 12 to Saturday 13 November, the Senate voted in favor of postponement of the legal retirement age, from 62 to 64 years old. THE’amendment was adopted by 196 votes to 134, in a hemicycle dominated by the right-wing opposition and must be voted on at first reading on Tuesday.

According to Senator LR Bruno Retailleau, Emmanuel Macron “is the only president for thirty years to have done nothing while the Senate has very regularly assumed its responsibilities“. The text provides for the entry into force of the rprogressive transfer of the retirement age at age 64 from generation 1966, from January 1, 2023. The convergence of special diets before 2032 is also planned.

“We can’t keep procrastinating like the government did for five years“blasted the general rapporteur Élisabeth Doineau, evoking the pension reform which should have been a major point in the five-year term of the current President of the Republic. “We do it“, added René-Paul Savary.

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