An additional episode, but without any suspense this time. Friday, December 12, the Senate was to consider a new reading of the Social Security financing bill (PLFSS) for 2026. Debates stitched together and which promised to be short. The elected representatives of the Les Républicains (LR) and Centrist Union (UC) groups, in the majority at the Palais du Luxembourg, had, in fact, the intention of defending, from the start of the session, a “motion to oppose the previous question”synonymous with rejection of the text if it was adopted – which seemed certain. It is now up to the National Assembly to decide on the copy that it had rubber-stamped on Tuesday. This final vote will take place, in principle, on December 16.
Right-wing and center-right senators chose not to linger on the PLFSS, because prolonging the discussions would have been ” useless “according to the formula of Elisabeth Doineau, elected centrist from Mayenne and general rapporteur of the social affairs committee. She and her colleagues in the majority at the Palais du Luxembourg have deep disagreements and “insurmountable” with several key provisions approved in the National Assembly: « suspension » (until the beginning of 2028) of the pension reform, removal of the freeze on benefits, increase in the general social contribution (CSG) on certain capital income, etc.
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