Emmanuel Macron assured Thursday that the government would carry out the pension reform, “which is essential”, “through social consultation and by seeking compromises”.
Speaking before the prefects gathered at the Elyse, the Head of State detailed the major projects of his policy in the difficult economic and social context of the start of the school year.
In this context, the pension reform is a reform that is essential because it is necessary to work longer in a nation where people live longer and on average enter working life later.
And so the government will conduct it through social consultation and by seeking compromises, but with an objective which is to rebalance the accounts of our pension system but also to create more wealth to be able to finance our social model, he said. addition.
Emmanuel Macron did not give details on the method and the timetable, while some members of the majority want this reform to be adopted as early as this fall as part of the Social Security budget bill (PLFSS) for 2023 , despite strong opposition from unions and the left.
The PLFSS must be presented to the Council of Ministers on September 26, debated in committee at the National Assembly and then from October 20 in the Chamber for the first reading.
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Emmanuel Macron had undertaken during the presidential campaign to shift the legal starting age to 65 years, against 62 currently, at the rate of four months per year until the mid-2030s. It is no longer necessarily a question of a such postponement, but in particular an extension of the contribution period.
Before the prefects, the president also reaffirmed that France had no budgetary leeway, due to the impossibility of increasing the public deficit and increasing taxes. The only way to finance all these policies is to create more wealth and therefore, according to him, the heart of politics (…) is work.