Finistère deputy Jean-Charles Larsonneur openly criticizes, in a press release published on Monday, the government’s plan on pensions. He calls for the abolition of the legal retirement age.
A new member of the majority is distancing himself from the government. After Patrick Vignal and Barbara Pompili, who announced that they would not vote for the pension reform without modification, it is Jean-Charles Larsonneur who defected. In a press release published on Monday, this deputy related to the group of Horizons, formation of Édouard Philippe, announces that he “reserves his vote, which is not acquired.”
This elected representative from Finistère says he is only “hardly enthusiastic about the reform which will be submitted to Parliament in early February.”
A “lack of ambition to simplify the current system”
Jean-Charles Larsonneur first explains that he is rather in favor of a retirement by point, as initially planned by Emmanuel Maron in 2019-2020. “I also regret that, perhaps out of intellectual laziness, we have not explored other models that combine distribution and capitalization in a common fund,” he writes.
The deputy would actually like to go further, even if he recognizes the “merit” of the current text, which combines postponement of the legal age and increase in the contribution period. However, he deplores the “brutality” of the reform and the “lack of ambition to simplify the current system.”
Jean-Charles Larsonneur therefore proposes to “remove the legal age of departure, to retain only the contribution period increased to 43 years with a discount mechanism.” “Failing that”, the deputy asks that “the legal age be raised to 63 (and not 64) with a review clause in 2027.”
