Government spokesman Olivier Véran admitted that the executive’s “message” on taking into account long careers in the pension reform was “still struggling to pass”, on the sidelines of a trip to Paris.
Visiting the famous Ferrandi cooking school, Mr. Vran reported that when he asked young people until when are you going to work (…) they say 62, 64, and many told me 65while employees who started their career before the age of 20 can retire earlier than the legal age, currently 62 years old.
Which means that our message in favor of long careers, even (…) super long careers, is still struggling to get through. This again shows that we have this work of explaining the reform do, he added.
The strategy of explanation of the government, after the fall of 14 points in two weeks of the adhesion to the reform according to the Elabe institute, is it not counter-productive? We don’t judge a strategy by a polleven if we obviously watch with interest, replied Mr. Vran.
Not the most popular reform of the five-year term
I am here today, not with the aim of convincing but already to explain, perhaps also to clear up misunderstandings because we are aware that there are still some, continued the representative of the government. We are not denying again that the reform is not the most popular reform of the quinquennium, but that has never been the case with pension reforms, he said.
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For him he is normal for the French to wonder, we must not lie to them, and we are going to put a text to be debated with the will to convince Parliament, where the bill will be examined in committee from Monday. While a new day of social mobilization will take place on Tuesday, Mr. Vran accused the political opposition of a lot of bad faith.
Some opponents not only deny the fact that retirement pensions are going to increase and that there are many favorable elements in the reform, but also forget to say that their counter-project would represent an increase that would go from 50 to 100 % of taxes for the French, he judged.
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