After telling BFMTV.com that “at this stage” she would not vote for pension reform, Barbara Pompili reaffirms her position and asks for “real work” to achieve a “socially just reform”.
The deputy of the presidential majority Barbara Pompili assured on RFI this Tuesday that the pension reform could not be carried out “against the population”, after having reiterated, like two other Macronist deputies, that it could not vote “as it stands” for a text “not balanced enough”.
The former Minister for the Ecological Transition had already explained her position to BFMTV.com last Monday.
“At this point, if I were to vote now, I could not vote for,” she said.
“The text as it stands today does not seem to me to be balanced enough”
“We cannot make a reform against the population”, affirmed the deputy of the Somme, whose party, In Common, which belongs to the presidential majority, published last week its proposals on long careers, seniors, young people and the hardship component.
“We need to have the population with us when we want to make a good reform. On this, we see that there is still work”, admitted Barbara Pompili, demanding not only “the explanation” of the part of the government, but also “a real work on the fact that this reform is a socially just reform”.
“Making companies contribute”
“The idea is not to be against to be against. The idea is not to block: I am in the majority, but the text as it is today does not seem to me enough balanced to be voted as it is”, assured the former minister, fearing that the mobilization against the reform will not “weaken”.
In addition, Barbara Pompili felt that “we must not close the door to other means of financing our pension system.
She thus called for “making companies contribute” and “work[er] so that there are fewer injustices in long careers”.
Several dissonant voices in the majority
On France Newsthe Renaissance deputy for Hérault, Patrick Vignal, who said he did not wish to vote for the text if it did not evolve, also pleaded for measures to be taken in favor of seniors.
“France is angry at the moment and I want to extinguish the anger,” he said.
Still in the presidential camp, Horizons MP Jean-Charles Larsonneur (Finistère) is “hardly enthusiastic” at this stage. “I have prerequisites before deciding my voting position”, he explained, defending a legal age of departure at 63 to avoid “threshold effects”, and additional measures for parental leave, subsidized jobs and caregivers.
At Horizons, the deputy of Mayenne Yannick Favennec also indicated, in an interview with France Blue, that “as it stands”, he would not vote for the pension reform. “I don’t want the starting age to be the alpha and omega of this reform. I think that we can set the number of annuities at 43 but if we reach this duration before the age of 64 years, you can retire and without a discount,” said the elected official.
Within the government, the Minister in charge of Relations with Parliament Franck Riester, also admitted on Monday that women are “slightly penalized by the postponement of the legal age” of retirement, maintaining in return that other measures of the reform would be to their “advantage”.
