Overview
- Deputies open debate and a first-reading vote today, with RN support and expected abstentions from macronists and MoDem making approval likely.
- The pause would halt the shift to a 64-year legal retirement age and ease contributions, with the 1964 cohort retiring at 62 years 9 months with 170 quarters instead of 63 years and 171.
- The government plans to broaden the pause to long careers, “active” and “superactive” public-service categories, and some people born in early 1965.
- Positions remain split: PS and Liot in favor; LFI, LR and most Horizons against; ecologists and communists undecided; the CFDT urges a yes vote while the CGT opposes.
- Cost estimates diverge—€100m in 2026 and €1.4bn in 2027 per the government versus up to €400m and €1.8bn per the LR rapporteur—and proposed funding through taxing complementary health insurers or freezing pensions has been rejected or withdrawn; absent a new law after 2027, the original 2023 schedule would resume with a one-quarter shift.