The Minister Delegate for Relations with Parliament explains that the government “has always said that these 1200 euros would be for people who have a full career at minimum wage” when retiring. Problem: the “minimum pension at 1200 euros” is regularly defended by the majority, without always specifying the amount of wages concerned.
An outing that does not go unnoticed. Franck Riester, the Minister Delegate for Relations with Parliament, returned to the pension at 1200 euros for future retirees. The left seized on this declaration, after a first controversial sentence from the member of the government on women “a little penalized” by the reform.
“We never said that all retirees would have 1200 euros. It’s wrong, we never said that”, advances the Minister Delegate for Relations with Parliament this Friday evening on BFMTV.
A central argument to convince on the pension reform
“We have always said that these 1200 euros would be for people who have a full career at the minimum wage”, explains Franck Riester on our antenna.
His statement comes as the executive who made “1200 euros pension for all” an argument to convince of the merits of his pension reform finds himself in difficulty on the subject.
According to Elisabeth Borne during the presentation of the pension reform in mid-January, it will concern “employees and the self-employed, in particular craftsmen and traders, who have contributed all their lives with income around the Smic”.
In his Presidential program of Emmanuel Macron during the campaign, we can also read that “the minimum pension will be increased to 1100 euros for a full career”, without specifying the amount of salaries for future retirees.
“We will always have at least one person in 4 who will be under 1200 euros”
Problem: this revaluation will ultimately be very far from affecting all retirees who receive small pensions.
“We will always have at least one person in four who will be under 1200 euros, very clearly”, recognized Olivier Dussopt, the Minister of Labor on France Inter this Thursday.
“It’s for a fully paid career at minimum wage, full time,” said the member of the government.
“The objective is that with a full career, no one retires with less than 1,200 euros net per month, or 85% of the minimum wage,” said Franck Riester for his part in the columns of South West last December.
“Retirement at 1200 euros is a fable”
The contradiction has not escaped the left, just days after the minister acknowledged on LCP and Public Senate that women would be “a little penalized” by retirement at 64.
“You always have to listen to Franck Riester. It was he who already recognized that the #PensionReform was going to widen the inequalities between women and men and it is he who now admits that the minimum pension of €1,200 is a fable. Thank you”, advanced Olivier Faure, the number 1 of the Socialist Party on Twitter.
Same story with Manuel Bompard, the coordinator of La France insoumise.
“Decidedly, Minister Riester is the man of confessions. After acknowledging that the pension reform will penalize women, here he is confessing the lie on the pension at 1200 euros”, advances this close friend of Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
His colleague Hadrien Clouet handles irony on his side. “Finally, Franck Riester has returned. And he will undoubtedly put a million more people back on the street”, judges this elected LFI.
“To know the truth, ask Riester”
Communist Ian Brossat is hardly more tender. “To know the truth about this dirty pension reform, ask Riester. After admitting that it penalizes women, he admits that the promise of a minimum pension of 1200 euros is bogus!”, Writes on his Twitter account this close by Fabien Roussel.
By way of justification in the face of the government’s contradiction, Olivier Dussopt advanced on France inter the impossibility “of imagining a pension system where the pension would be higher than what we have earned all our life as salary”. The Minister of Labor was unable to indicate the number of people affected by the measure.
“Nearly 2 million small pensions will be increased,” said the Prime Minister for her part during the presentation of the reform.
