Reaffirming his desire to implement his reform from the summer of 2023, the Head of State said he was, Wednesday evening during the interview with France 2, “open” to a postponement of Legal age at 64, not 65 years old, in the event of lengthening the contribution duration.
by
Emmanuel Macron says he is ready to reconsider one of his most controversial campaign promises: the transfer to 65 years of the legal retirement age. In the interview he granted on Wednesday October 26 to France 2, the President of the Republic seemed to sketch a gesture in this direction. “I am open,” he argued, while placing his conditions. The Head of State thus seeks to give the impression that he is reaching out to unions – in particular the CFDT -, who are against the idea of repelling the moment from which the insured can claim the payment of their pension.
Before making this foot call, Mr. Macron firmly reaffirmed his attachment to a commitment he had made during the race at the Elysée. “The mandate I had of our compatriots is to say [that], from the summer of 2023 (…), we will have to shift the legal departure age of four months per year”, a- he said, which means that this parameter will go from 62 to “63 years” in “2025”, then to “64 years” in “2028” and “65 years” in “2031”.
“It is an essential reform, if we want to be able to continue to preserve our social model,” he argued. In support of his speech, he highlighted several elements. First, our pension system will have a “need for funding” included “between 10 and 12 billion” in 2027. In addition, “the demography means that we have to work longer”, due to the increase in ‘life expectancy. “There is only one way to do, if one is lucid,” he decided, by removing the other two possible solutions: an increase in compulsory levies or a drop in the amount of pensions. >
Maintain the blur
However, this project can be amended, “if some are ready to commit,” according to the President of the Republic. The hypothesis “to go to 64 years” (against 65, therefore) was cited, for a “counterpart”: “we extend the quarters.” A slightly curious formula, suggesting that the duration of Contribution required to receive a full -rate retreat. How? At least two options are possible. The first would consist in accelerating the implementation of the Touraine law of January 2014: it had revised up the “insurance duration” necessary at the full rate, by gradually bringing it to forty-three years-for those who were born from 1973. The scenario mentioned by the Head of State could therefore mean that the rule of forty-three years would apply faster, for example from the 1969 or 1965 generation. Another solution: push the cursor to -the forty-three years, in the long term.
You have 42.66% of this article to read. The continuation is reserved for subscribers.