Former budget minister, deputy for Oise and quaestor in the National Assembly, Éric Woerth is the guest of Europe 1 this Monday morning. At the microphone of Sonia Mabrouk, he is largely positioned in favor of the pension reform which he perceives as necessary in order to maintain the balance of the pension system.
No doubt for Éric Woerth, the highly contested pension reform is a necessity. Referring to remarks made by the NUPES deputy Sandrine Rousseau during the demonstration of young people against the reform on Saturday, the quaestor of the National Assembly believes “that we are not carrying out a pension reform by ideology”.
“The reality is what we announced in 2010. I was saying that there was about a decade of balance left in the pension system”, he explains, mentioning the pension reform he was defending in 2010 when he was Minister of Labor during the presidency of Nicolas Sarkozy. “The pension system is the reproduction of your model of life. Things change and so does retirement,” he continued.
“The interest of France”
The former minister believes that this reform is about “taking into account expectations, putting a lot of justice and redistribution into the pension system and taking into account the hardship. It must also be said that a many of our fellow citizens cannot work a little longer”. That said, the deputy from Oise believes that this pension reform is “in the interest of France, the future of the country, the future of the population, the future of our pension systems”.
Faced with some members of the government’s opposition, which calls for retirement at 60, Éric Woerth believes that a retirement set at this age would lead to the disappearance of the pension system.