Overview
- Debate opens at 3 p.m. on an article of the 2026 social security budget that would freeze the path to a 64-year legal age and required trimesters until January 2028.
- An amendment from the government expands the pause to long careers, ‘active’ and ‘superactive’ public workers, certain overseas regimes, and people born in the first quarter of 1965.
- Group lines are split, with PS, RN and Liot backing the measure, Renaissance and MoDem largely abstaining, and LFI, LR and Horizons opposed, while ecologists and communists weigh abstention.
- The government cites costs of about €100 million in 2026 and €1.4 billion in 2027, as alternative estimates run higher and prior plans to tax complementary health and freeze pensions face rejection.
- The Senate’s LR leadership vows to restore the 2023 reform, unions are divided, and the CGT has called a December 2 strike as the measure heads into an uncertain endgame.