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French National Assembly Votes on Pension Reform Suspension Through 2028

The move stems from a Socialist deal to avert censure, with cost and funding still disputed.

L'Assemblée nationale, à Paris, le 5 novembre 2025.
Réforme des retraites : vers une suspension aussi pour les carrières longues ?
L’Hémicycle de l’Assemblée nationale.
La suspension de la réforme des retraites va être débattue mercredi à l'Assemblée

Overview

  • The government amendment would pause the 2023 law’s climb toward a 64-year legal retirement age until January 2028, keeping the 1964 cohort at 62 years and 9 months with 170 quarters.
  • The executive announced plans to widen the pause to long-career workers, active and superactive public-service categories, and some people born in early 1965.
  • First-reading approval is considered likely as the RN backs the suspension, LR and Horizons oppose it, and Macronists and the MoDem plan to abstain.
  • Left-wing divisions persist, with the PS claiming a negotiated win and LFI refusing support, while unions are split between CFDT praise and CGT criticism.
  • Financing remains unresolved after deputies rejected a levy on complementary health insurers and moved to scrap planned freezes, with cost estimates ranging from about €100 million to €400 million in 2026 and €1.4 billion to €1.8 billion in 2027; any unfinished text will proceed to the Senate with Assembly amendments carried over.