MPs approve its suspension in committee

The suspension of this emblematic reform of Emmanuel Macron’s second five-year term was proposed by the government, in order to escape censorship from the PS.

This is a first step towards suspending the pension reform. Inserted in the Social Security budget, the article suspending the Borne reform of 2023 was approved, Friday, October 31, in the Social Affairs Committee, by 22 votes to 12. The National Rally and the Socialists voted for, while Les Insoumis, who insist on a clear repeal, and the LR and Horizons deputies, who want to maintain the reform, voted against. The rest of the deputies, including those from Renaissance, mostly abstained.

The suspension of this emblematic reform of Emmanuel Macron’s second five-year term was proposed by the government, in order to escape censorship from the PS, and will be voted on as part of the Social Security budget, following discussions which are due to start on Tuesday in the hemicycle.

In reaction to this adoption in committee of the suspension of the pension reform until January 1, 2028, the leader of the PS deputies, Olivier Faure, said on that“in 2027 in the presidential elections, we will have to win to go further by repealing the Borne reform.”

Socialist MP Sandrine Runel welcomed a “first victory”, ensuring that the government was committed, between now and the arrival of the text in the hemicycle, to integrate by amendment several requests from the oppositions: better consideration of “the 65 generation”, the integration of long careers, and the extension to policyholders in Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon and Mayotte. “The question of long careers is not a problem for the government”had in fact assured the Prime Minister to the deputies.

Faced with the anger of the left after the rejection, at first reading, of the Zucman tax on the assets of very large fortunes, Sébastien Lecornu then tried to reassure about the government’s intentions. He thus said he was ready to renounce the freezing of retirement pensions and social minimums, measures among the most contested in this budgetary sequence.

Originally, the government intended to make savings of up to 3.6 billion on these subjects, and could compensate for this by an increase in the CSG on assets, already voted on at the initiative of the left in committee in the Social Security budget.