The pension reform
"we will do that when the masks fall"
because
"there we have other priorities"
, Emmanuel Macron launched to a farmer during his visit to an agricultural fair in Provence, confirming the choice of executive to postpone this reform.
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“We will have to move anyway. After that, you should not do it right away, ”
he said, during a walkabout at the“ Terres de Jim ”fair in Corbières-en-Provence.
“It will have to be done while listening to everyone. And then there, we have other priorities, anyway "
, with the Covid epidemic and the economic recovery to be carried out, estimated the Head of State, adding:
" we will do that when we take off the masks, if I may say so ”
.
"Don't worry about all this,"
he insisted,
"we have to be collectively intelligent"
to
"find the right system to save our pensions."
“If we tell each other the truth, we live longer and longer, we study longer and longer.
And who finances the pensions?
It's the people who work.
How are we going to get the same pensions? "
, he insisted.
"We must find the right system to keep pensions"
but
"not ask impossible things of people who work"
, he concluded.
Conditions "not met"
Prime Minister Jean Castex declared on Wednesday, at the end of a government seminar chaired by Emmanuel Macron, that the conditions for relaunching the pension reform - pandemic under control and solid economic recovery -
were "to date still not met ”
.
Even if this reform
"is an absolute necessity"
to restore the balance of the system,
"we have the imperative duty to promote as much as possible the unity of the country"
, he added, in allusion to the opposition of the trade unions and reluctance on this reform even in the ranks of the majority, a few months before the 2022 presidential election.
The hypothesis of a revival of the pension reform had resurfaced on Monday through an article in the newspaper
Les Échos
according to which Emmanuel Macron intended to
"remove the special pension schemes and establish the minimum pension at 1000 euros"
before the end of his term.
