“Our bellies are not the adjustment variable of your pension reform”, launched the EELV deputy for Paris in the hemicycle, while parliamentarians were debating the financing of pensions by the birth rate.
To better finance pensions, play on the birth rate? This has been the proposal of the elected members of the National Rally since the start of the debates on the pension reform. During the examination of the bill in the National Assembly on Wednesday, an amendment defended by LR Thibault Bazin provoked discussions resulting in the anger of many women in the hemicycle.
The parliamentarian The Republicans proposed to “lower the CSG rate on the income from activities of mothers” according to the number of dependent children. “Without children tomorrow, there will be no renewal of generations”, he said for this measure which, according to him, aims “to better support mothers of working families”.
LR amendment supported by the RN
“A pay-as-you-go pension is only conceivable with a favorable age pyramid,” argued his colleague Marc Le Fur.
The government, through Gabriel Attal, gave an unfavorable opinion on this amendment. “But [nous sommes] in line with you on the objectives”, said the minister to Thibault Bazin.
“The birth rate is the great absentee with the productivity of your pension reform”, then launched Laure Lavalette (RN).
“No social ambition of this country could have been achieved if we had not had a flourishing birth rate,” she said, accusing “the left” of “blaming women who want to have children.”
“Our bellies are not an adjustment variable”
“An advice: let go of our wombs!”, replied Sandrine Rousseau. “If you want to help women, make equal pay, paternity leave equivalent to maternity leave,” she said.
“Let women leave before age 64 with acquired quarters. Withdraw your reform! Our bellies are not the adjustment variable of your pension reform”
After her, Sophia Chikirou (LFI) added that this reform is “anti-feminist and goes against women“Stop reducing women to their bellies and having children,” she said.
“We are in the 21st century”
Although she defends the pension reform, the macronist Thévenot also took the floor to denounce the arguments of the RN. “Here you come out of your cave to rekindle not your old demons but your current demons. [Selon vous,] there is a problem, it is the women”, she launched. “Thank you for your lessons, but we will pass.”
“We are in the 21st century, no longer in 1945. Thank you for coming back to the real world”, also said Karine Le Bon, deputy GDR.
The amendment was ultimately largely rejected by MPs, who finished their debates shortly after midnight. They will resume the examination of the reform this Thursday morning, from nine o’clock, until Friday evening.
