By announcing that he had reached an agreement in favor of pensioners, the head of the LR deputies has turned the tables on the Macron camp, which in turn wants to maintain the exemptions from employer contributions as they stand.
Good news for pensioners? Laurent Wauquiez will be announcing it loud and clear, on Monday evening, when he takes to the stage of TF1’s “20 heures”.. And so much the worse, if it’s unusual for the president of a parliamentary group to announce government arbitration before a minister. Over the weekend, the leader of the Les Républicains (LR) MPs reached an agreement with the Prime Minister, Michel Barnier.
In front of television viewers, the parliamentarian claimed to have obtained a measure he had been calling for: all pensions would be “harmonized”. increased by half the rate of inflation to 1er January, then the most modest pensions will benefit from a catch-up in July. This represents a maximum concession of 800 million euros for the government, which had planned to postpone indexation of all pensions to inflation for six months. “ I consider it a normal effort “insists Laurent Wauquiez.
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