Several presidential candidates have integrated it into their program: pension reform is one of the major challenges of the upcoming election.
Some - Valérie Pécresse, Éric Zemmour and Emmanuel Macron - are already proposing to push back the legal retirement age, insisting on the savings that such a decision would make it possible to achieve.
The Montaigne Institute, requested by Les Échos, took them at their word and undertook to quantify the savings that would be made possible by the various reforms proposed by the candidates.
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Valérie Pécresse proposes the most profound and rapid reform, since the right-wing candidate wants to raise the legal retirement age from 62 to 65 by 2030, with five months of additional activity each year. here there.
Valérie Pécresse's campaign team estimates the possible savings at 16 billion euros in 2027, which the Institut Montaigne weighs: this savings objective would be reached in 2030. In addition, the measures envisaged by the candidate to soften the retirement of employees worn out by work or who have had a long career would cost, according to the Institute, 540 million euros.
The bill for the pension revaluations proposed by Valérie Pécresse would be 4 billion euros.
Emmanuel Macron, for his part, wishes to set up a fairly similar reform, again with a postponement of the legal age of departure to 65 years.
But at a slower pace: four additional months each year.
This would mean that the reform would be completed in 2032. According to the Institut Montaigne, this formula would make it possible to achieve 18 billion euros in savings that year.
The exemption measures for long careers, invalids or handicapped persons provided for in his project would cost 1.5 billion euros per year, to which must be added 1.3 billion euros of additional expenditure to revalue the pensions as planned by the president-candidate.
Éric Zemmour wishes for his part to push back the retirement age to 64 years by 2030. This reform would make it possible, once the target age is reached, to generate 10.7 billion euros in savings.
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The other contenders for the Élysée have refused to postpone the legal age of departure.
Anne Hidalgo proposed to “sanctuarize” the age of departure at 62, while Jean-Luc Mélenchon wishes to allow a departure from 60, just like Fabien Roussel.
Yannick Jadot and Marine Le Pen do not wish, for their part, to touch the 62-year-old rule.
