The National Assembly in France approved on Wednesday (12.11.2025), by 255 votes to 146, the “suspension of implementation” of the pension reform until 2027, i.e. until the presidential elections, thus giving a political breather to his government Sebastian Lecorny.
The text foresees the suspension of the reform in France, without however abolishing it, and postpones any new “front” for the insurance to the next five years. This vote was a condition set by the Socialist Party on Prime Minister Sebastien Lecorny in order to ensure the stability of the current majority.
The Socialists, who have become necessary for the formation of “conjunctural” majorities, have thus sent a clear message: in exchange for the “freezing” of the reform, they will not attempt to overthrow the Lecorny government, unlike what happened with the previous Bairroux and Barnier governments.
A stance that paves the way for the approval of the 2026 budget and contributes, if only temporarily, to the easing of political tension.
At the political level, division runs through a section of the opposition. MPs from Marine Le Pen’s National Alarm, the Socialist Party, and the Greens voted in favor of the suspension. On the contrary, the elected representatives of Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s Insubordinate France and the Communist Party voted against the text, considering it to be a simple, “decorated” freezing of a reform which they wish to abolish completely.
The pension battle, far from being effectively closed, has thus been postponed to 2027. Until then, the stakes for both the presidential camp and the opposition will be how they will politically exploit this fragile compromise, in a country where the question of the retirement age remains one of the most explosive issues of public life.