Emmanuel Macron details his retirement at 65.
To postpone the retirement age, a key point of his program, the president-candidate wants to "take into account the arduousness of careers" by criteria "that we individualize".
“Otherwise, we will recreate special diets,” he warned on France 3 on Sunday.
The candidate for his own succession also wishes to take into account "long careers" as well as "tiring jobs, physically or nervously".
He cited slaughterhouse workers and teachers, for whom “it is sometimes hard in certain classes to go up to 65”, professions where he wishes to “adapt career ends through negotiation”.
Macron promises to launch a consultation if he is re-elected
Emmanuel Macron also promised "to launch a consultation in a peaceful manner" on this reform at the start of his second five-year term if he is re-elected, rather than implementing it upon his arrival.
The LREM candidate also assured that the pension reform he is proposing is not intended to "compensate for Covid expenses" but to "preserve our pensions in the future".
"It has nothing to do with whatever it takes," he said.
Asked about "the risk of putting the French back on the street" in view of the hostility of the unions, he judged that it exists but that to convince "we must explain why".
“I agree” that this reform is not easy, but “it is not easy on anything”, he said.
"I want to do things calmly, with kindness, that's why I did not launch such reforms a few months ago," he said.
“Our country is tired of the Covid crisis and worried about the war, but we must continue to move forward,” he defended.
