Emmanuel Macron wants to demonstrate that the right does not have a monopoly on labor value. During his speech on Tuesday, November 9, the President of the Republic insisted a lot on this theme by presenting it as a “Compass”, the “Red thread of [leur] action “. In his mouth, such rhetoric is not new, but he magnified it emphatically. An additional clue which gives credence to the idea that the tenant of the Elysee Palace is, without officially displaying it, a candidate for his re-election and that he intends to beat the pawn to his rivals from the Republicans (LR) party on subjects which they feel comfortable with. are expensive.
“It is through work, and more work, that we will be able to preserve our social model”, declared the Head of State, by mentioning, in particular, the system of pensions. This is why he again pleaded for an extension of the duration of professional careers, as he had done on July 12, during his previous speech.
But there are two important nuances. First, Mr. Macron indicated on Tuesday evening that this “Necessary reform” will only be engaged in 2022 – in other words, in the next legislature: it’s not much of a surprise, but, at least, things are said. Above all, he specified that these transformations will take place “By pushing back the legal age” from which the insured can claim the payment of their pension (and which is 62 years, today). It is the first time that he expresses it so clearly in public, even if he had suggested, by cryptic sentences pronounced during several interventions, that this track was present in his mind. This is a complete change of course from his program for the 2017 presidential election: “We will not touch the retirement age”, he had promised at the time.
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Mr. Macron also expressed his commitment to work by raising the level of his ambitions. “We should not aim for just 7% unemployment”, he insisted, implicitly referring to the goal he had set for 2022: the goal, now, is to go down to an even lower rate, in order to achieve the ” full employment “. In the eyes of the Head of State, this implies ” to go past ” the difficulties that many bosses are facing in finding labor: such a situation, at a time when there are some 3.5 million people without activity and looking for a job, “Clashes with common sense”, he lamented.
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