The Senate voted for Article 7 of the pension reform, raising the retirement age from 62 to 64 years old. Debates continue around reform and the application of the phasing out of special regimes. The inter-union still opposes the reform and has planned two new days of mobilization.
The Senate approved article 7 of the pension reform overnight from Wednesday to Thursday by 201 votes in favor and 115 votes against. Senators have until Sunday March 12 to vote on the entire reform. Article 7, decisive for the reform, moves back the legal retirement age from 62 to 64 years. Republicans, who have the majority in the Senate, voted in favor while the United Left voted against.
The vote, greeted by some applause on the right, was won by 201 votes against 115, out of 345 voters. “I am delighted that the debates made it possible to reach this vote”, declared Elisabeth Borne on Twitter. Since last Thursday, the senatorial majority has remained silent, but has pulled out the heavy artillery of the regulations to speed up the debates in the face of the "obstruction" of the left. She denounced a "coup of force".
The debates continued this Thursday, March 9 at 10:30 a.m., around a controversial amendment proposed by Bruno Retailleau, president of the LR group in the Senate. He pleads for the progressive extinction of the special regimes, voted in article 2, to apply to employees already in office. The senatorial majority aims to go to the end of the text and the final vote before the deadline of Sunday midnight. The intersyndicale, opposed to the reform and in particular to the decline in the legal age of departure, announced two new days of mobilization, the first of which on Saturday March 11.