While doubt hung over, Emmanuel Macron decided. The president announced this Thursday that he wants to start the pension reform. But it will be "transformed" he said, requesting the resumption of negotiations with the social partners this summer.
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"Should pension reform be thrown away?" No. It would be a mistake (...) I will ask the government to re-engage in consultation with the social partners, in depth, starting in the summer, on these questions. But there will be no abandonment of a pension reform. I am open to her being transformed. It cannot be resumed unchanged after the crisis, ” said the head of state in an interview with regional daily newspapers.
A “very hard” economic return
Emmanuel Macron was also pessimistic about the return to school which "will be very hard, we must prepare for it", he warned, indicating that his priority will be "to draw a new path around economic reconstruction, social and environmental ” of the country. This priority for the last part of the five-year period "begins with the Ségur de la santé" , "will continue with work on the elderly, then on the support of our youth, who have suffered the most from the crisis" , a- he added.