The former President of the Republic revealed that he received several thousand euros in retirement thanks to the various functions he performed.
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FRançois Hollande played the transparency card. Invited on the set of BFMTV, Monday, February 6, to speak on the pension reform, the former President of the Republic has decided to “put everything on the table” and to reveal his own retirement. To the question: “You combine the retirement of former President of the Republic, former deputy of Corrèze, former adviser to the Court of Auditors and former president of the General Council of Corrèze. Does that sound right to you? François Hollande replied with figures. “As far as the President of the Republic is concerned, I have 4,000 euros in retirement since I do not sit on the Constitutional Council,” he revealed.
“I have a pension for the Court of Auditors which is around 4,000 euros, and the rest is a parliamentary pension. Which means that I have a pension of 11,000 or 12,000 euros, ”says the former president. Total transparency motivated by the desire “that everyone understands the situation”. “I think that for former presidents, 4,000 euros seems to be much less than what is happening abroad,” he judges.
A “method error”
The former President of the Republic also pointed to an “error in method” by the government on the pension reform: having “considered that it was at the level of Parliament that the adjustments should be made and not at the level of social negotiation with trade unions”. “The government is now going to be faced with parliamentary amendments which will perhaps cost it dearly without there being any appeasement in the streets, because it is the trade union organizations which are the driving force, it is not Mr Ciotti [président de LR] who is leading the protests,” he warned. He also defended “a contribution from the highest incomes and the highest assets”, recalling that “even for the reforms of Nicolas Sarkozy and François Fillon” in 2010, this had been the case, but “there, nothing”, he wondered.
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