Collective opposition demands pension negotiations by the government

An unusual scenario will play out in the Parliamentary Hall on Thursday, when the Parliamentary opening debate will be held from 9 o’clock.

Here, all eight opposition parties will try to put pressure on the SVM government in the matter of the future retirement age, about which there is disagreement within the government.

Ritzau learns – like other media – that the opposition parties will present a proposal for adoption, which will require the government to call for negotiations on the age for withdrawal from the labor market in the future.

The parties want the government to convene the negotiations as soon as possible, and at the latest before next year there must be a vote on whether the retirement age should rise to 70 from 2050.

The text will be read out in the Folketingsalen by the chairman of the Danish Democrats, Inger Støjberg.

With the text of the proposal, the opposition wants to illustrate the internal disagreements in the government, after Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen (S) in August opened up to reopening the Welfare Agreement from 2006.

She announced in an interview with Berlingske that next year the Social Democrats will vote to raise the retirement age to 70, but then the party will renegotiate the agreement.

Internally in the SVM government, the chairman of the Moderates, Lars Løkke Rasmussen, has said that the issue should be clarified quickly, while the Liberals want to set up a so-called working life commission.

Mette Frederiksen has declared herself willing to get “some smart people” to take a closer look at how the future retirement age should be adjusted, but without setting a deadline.

Parties have criticized Mette Frederiksen’s pension plans for being too vague. And to be a decidedly electoral pork for use by the Social Democrats in the next general election campaign in two years at the latest.

/ritzau/