A text found too radical for the PS associates

FN: immigration in the crosshairs

No question, for the extreme right party, to receive retirement at 60 years. "Sarkozy enfume you ...". "The nation can make an effort, the time to save our pensions, without being necessary to destroy our current system and further deplete the French", said its Vice President, Marine Le Pen, in a long video online, yesterday, on the website of the party. The national Front advocates not only enlargement of the financing of pensions "speculation and stock options" and the taxation of pensions hats to give a "small bonus" to workers whose trades are painful. Faithful to its ideological corpus, the formation of Jean-Marie Le Pen takes mainly to immigration and the French contribution to the European budget, suggesting to stop these "unnecessary and novice" expenses to reassign them "in part" to pensions. Longer term, the party wants to "encourage a vigorous pro-birth policy, instead of resorting to a costly and destabilizing immigration".

Modem: a points system

The opposition, the Modem is a case: it is the only party to accept a postponement of the legal age for retirement beyond 60 years. François Bayrou said he is "ready to support" reform "necessary and essential", for it is "fair". For the Modem, taking account of the arduousness is a "priority" and those who have started to work very early "must leave at a reasonable age." Above all, François Bayrou explained to Eric Woerth, François Fillon, Nicolas Sarkozy the importance it attaches to the "security 65 net", which allows to assert its rights without discount, even without retired the number of required quarters. "It protects women who have raised children, young people who have made long studies and all those who have had careers"broken"because of unemployment or illness." "It should not be disturbed", he warned. François Bayrou is long-standing favourable pension points system, in which "everyone can more freely choose the time of his departure."

Socialist Party: "shared efforts."

"A universal and custom system": such is the philosophy of reform pensions proposed by the Socialists, who put forward the idea of "shared efforts." "The pension reform cannot be painless for employees, but it must be balanced," said MP Marisol Touraine, in charge of the file. All the revenue will be updated with contributions, including those of the capital. Maintain the legal age of retirement at age 60, is, according to the Socialists, "a guarantee for those who have started to contribute early, a protection for those worn by their trade and freedom of choice for all." Their reform is based on four pillars: find new resources, help senior citizens employment, taking account of the hardship and propose a "chosen retirement." In terms of resources, with the estimate of the Horn that evaluates the need for funding to the horizon 2025, EUR 45 billion Socialists propose to take EUR 25 billion on revenue of capital, EUR 12 billion increase "moderate and in time" contributions, "strong measures for the employment of senior citizens" which will allow to identify at least EUR 6 billion, and, finally, "5 to 10 billion euros through structural reforms: incentives for those who are and wish to work longer." To secure the system, the Socialists want to feed the Reserve Fund of pension with a surcharge of 15 of the tax paid by the banks.

Green: increasing the minimum old-age

Pensions, environmentalists have opted for a line "left all." The Greens signed on April 7, the call of Attac and the Copernicus Foundation. A text found too radical for the PS associates. "We consider that the lengthening of the period of assessment or the report of the minimum age of retirement may fuel unemploymentespecially young people - and to reduce the level of benefits, already begun by the previous reforms", say the Greens in a text to be submitted to their supporters at the weekend. Pensions, according to them, "must be reformed for more equity, increasing and facilitating access to the minimum old-age, and improving compensation for women". To find new resources, Cécile Duflot party advocates including "a conditionality of the policy of exemption from social security contributions and the repeal of exemptions on overtime", "a social levy on the profit-sharing, stock options, salary savings" and "the increase of the CSG on the income of investment and heritage".

Communist Party: back at 37.5 annuities

Pensions will be on the menu of "Congress to step" of PCF, at the end of the week, in which Pierre Laurent succeeded Marie-George Buffet. Communists seek including taking account of the arduous nature, the maintenance of the legal age to 60 years with the guarantees for a retirement rate full and the reference to the last 6 months of salary for the calculation of pensions, return to 37.5 annuities of assessment "for all", the adjustment for small pensions and taking into account years of training. To fund this program, the FCP proposes to tax financial income of companies and banks "at the same rate as the employer social contribution on wages".