“
I am ready to discuss”.
Emmanuel Macron wanted to be reassuring, this Monday, about his pension reform.
A controversial measure for which he said he was open to a referendum, during an interview on BFMTV on Monday.
“I am ready to discuss the rhythm and the limits”
, he assured, adding that he wanted a
“new method”
of consultation.
“Clarifications are necessary”
on this reform, he further indicated.
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In addition, concerning the retirement age that the qualified candidate in the second round of the presidential election wishes to postpone to 65 years, against 62 currently, he said, this Monday, ready to
"move"
and
" open the door”
to a postponement to 64,
“if there are too many tensions”
and that
“it can build a consensus”
.
“I am ready to move the relationship to time and say that we do not necessarily make a reform until 2030 if I feel too much anxiety among people.
Because we cannot say on Sunday evening '' I want to gather '' and when we go to listen to people say '' I do not move ''
, he underlined during a trip to the Pas -de-Calais.
he added, answering questions during a walkabout, also referring to a
“review clause in 2027”
.
“We only retained a magic number
” of 65 years old which however
“does not arrive before 2030”
, also regretted the LREM candidate on BFMTV.
Asked whether this figure could be lowered to 64, given the reluctance of the French, he replied in the affirmative.
"I open the door very clearly (...) maybe if there is too much tension, we have to stop in 2027, and not preempt the rest"
of the reform, he said. clarified, knowing that his current project is to delay the retirement age by 4 months per year from 2023.
“Only for future generations”
Suspended in March 2020 due to confinement, the pension reform is defended as a financial necessity by the president-candidate in order to fill the deficit of the system.
However, this new version will be "
different from that of 2017 because the macroeconomic conditions are not the same",
he promised in early April.
Emmanuel Macron wants to implement "
a
simpler
universal scheme
" but, this time "
only for future generations
", which would include the abolition of the main special schemes and the consideration of long careers and the arduous nature of the professions.
“
People in the toughest jobs have to leave earlier
“, he confirmed on Monday.
He thus proposed, as in 2019, an
“individualized”
system with an analysis of the arduousness of the tasks that each one carried out during his career.
He suggested free Social Security checkups at ages 40 and 65 to assess it.
A departure at 62 for Marine Le Pen
Facing him, Marine Le Pen undertakes to maintain the legal age at 62 years maximum, while wanting to create a more favorable system for those who entered the working life at the youngest.
During the campaign, other candidates had come out in favor of a decline in this starting age, like Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
A proposal to which Emmanuel Macron replied: "
If I were a demagogue and wanted to be elected, I would propose retirement at 60, but how do we finance it
", he tackled on BFMTV.
Beyond the retirement age, Emmanuel Macron wants to improve the standard of living of retirees by promising to index pensions to inflation "
from this summer
" and a floor, for full careers, set at 1100 euros per year. month.
He is also in favor of a minimum pension of 85% of the minimum wage for farmers.