Emmanuel Macron announced this week that he would resumequickly» in the event of re-election, pension reform, gradually raising the legal retirement age to 65 years.
The Chairman of the Assembly’s Finance Committee Éric Woerth (ex-LR) welcomed in the Sunday newspaper the “clarification“Brought by Emmanuel Macron, who showed himself”braveby promising to raise the retirement age to 65 in the event of re-election. “It’s a justice reform“, pleaded the former budget minister of Nicolas Sarkozy, who supported Mr. Macron for the presidential election and “put on leaveof the Republicans. “I am obviously happy with this clarification“, he insisted, believing that the system”requires increasing the retirement age according to the length of life“.
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Less than a month before the first round of the presidential election, “you have to be brave to say it», underlined Mr. Woerth. “Obviously, public opinion is not in favor of raising the retirement age. But I think today she can understand it“, he continued. Because according to Mr. Woerth, “a sound pension system must be self-financing“. Gold, “who wants to raise taxes? Or worse, finance it with debt?he wondered.
Emmanuel Macron announced this week that he would resumequickly» in the event of re-election, pension reform, gradually raising the legal retirement age to 65 years. An early retirement age would be defined for people who cannot work longer (painful career, long career, disability, etc.). In addition, Emmanuel Macron is in favor of a minimum pension of 1,100 euros for full careers, and the abolition of the main special schemes for new entrants. “There is no particular difficulty in working at SNCF, RATP or EDF“, Thus abounded Mr. Woerth.