The condition of these LR deputies to vote for the pension reform

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MP LR Pierre-Henri Dumont believes that “the text must be improved during” its examination in Parliament, in particular on the start of a career before the age of 21.

POLICY – The warning is clear. While Elisabeth Borne is inflexible on raising the retirement age this Sunday, January 29, a small handful of deputies The Republicans set a new condition to support the government’s text.

On RMC, the deputy of Pas-de-Calais Pierre-Henri Dumont announced the tabling of an amendment allowing “all those who have contributed at least one quarter before the age of 21 to leave before the legal age, as long as they have all their quarters, without discount. »

“When you started learning before the age of 18, to have a validated quarter, you have to contribute three quarters, because you contribute at the SMIC level. So someone who started an apprenticeship at 16 would have to contribute 46 annuities to be able to leave without a discount,” also deplores the chosen one.

And warn: We risk having a subject if this amendment is not accepted because there is a large number of deputies from the group Les Républicains are not ready to vote for this reform, can even vote against it, if this possibility is not given », he continues, including himself in this category.

In the name of the “ consistency “ with the line of his party, the boss of LR Éric Ciotti said he was ready to vote for the reform project of the government on condition that it is ” fair “. But since then, several elected members of the party have distanced themselves from this position.

In addition to Pierre-Henri Dumont, the deputy of Lot Aurélien Pradié also made it known in mid-January in Point that he would vote ” against “ the reform without evolution of the government on what it qualifies as “red lines”. This holder of a “popular right” mentions in particular the subject of women, who are more penalized by the decline in age than men in the first years of application.

“We discovered after the introduction of this bill that there were much bigger losers than what had been presented to us”joins him this Sunday his colleague Pierre-Henri Dumont. “We have already improved the text before, now we have to improve it during”, he concludes.

If she ruled out any negotiation on the decline of the age and refutes any injustice vis-à-vis women, Élisabeth Borne was more open to a possible evolution of the project with a view to a better use of the quarters. ” education “ and ” maternity “. “As of today, there are many women who cannot use them to the full, we are analyzing the situation of these women”, she said on franceinfo.

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