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Macron, condemned to make… Sarkozy on pensions?

2021-06-21T06:22:43.373Z


ANALYSIS - The 2008 crisis forced Nicolas Sarkozy to reform pensions. The Covid crisis risks forcing Emmanuel Macron in turn.


Emmanuel Macron has, as we know, borrowed more from Nicolas Sarkozy than from François Hollande for the exercise of his presidential power.

Whether in form (hyperpresidence, versus the normal presidency) or in substance (a policy judged by much more on the right than on the left).

And a new proof of this "filiation" has been given to the French in recent days on the issue of ... pensions.

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Macron could, like Sarkozy before him, launch a parametric reform when he had pledged in 2017 not to do so.

"We will not touch the retirement age, or the level of pensions,"

he had promised page 13 in his campaign booklet.

"We have a chance in the coming five-year term is that there will be no financial imbalance in the pension system

," he justified in the interval between the two rounds, in an interview with

Le Figaro,

on April 29 2017.

I will take this opportunity to resolve the issues in a systemic manner, so that we no longer have to come back to them. ”

Namely, pass

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Source: lefigaro

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