This is an important subject of division between the presidential candidates: how to ensure the sustainability of the pension system?
Questioned by Elabe for Les Échos, Radio Classique and the Institut Montaigne, the French seem in any case to massively reject an option proposed by several contenders for the Élysée, namely the postponement of the legal retirement age.
Eric Zemmour proposes to raise it to 64 years old, Emmanuel Macron and Valérie Pécresse to 65 years old, but the French are in favor of 70%, according to the poll, against this measure.
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The view of the French on this measure varies according to their political affiliation: 54% of the voters of Valérie Pécresse are for a postponement of the legal age of departure, as well as 45% of the voters of Emmanuel Macron.
Conversely, 56% of Marine Le Pen voters and 45% of Eric Zemmour supporters are in favor of keeping the retirement age at 62.
Revaluation of pensions
The survey, conducted among 1,531 people, thus raises that the option preferred by the French to ensure the future of the pension system would be an increase in taxes or duties for the wealthiest households (63% of those questioned see favorably this track).
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Conversely, the most unpopular measure would be a reduction in retirement pensions, to which 65% of those questioned say they are “
very opposed
” and 28% “
rather opposed
”.
This is not, moreover, proposed by any presidential candidate: the contenders for the Elysée Palace have rather bet in their programs on an increase in pensions.
Emmanuel Macron thus proposes to increase the minimum pension at the full rate to 1100 euros per month.
Valérie Pécresse goes further, and wants the minimum pension to be equivalent to a net minimum wage, knowing that it will exceed 1300 euros per month in May.
Several candidates are also calling for a revaluation of the minimum old age, such as Marine Le Pen, Jean-Luc Mélenchon or Anne Hidalgo.