Marine Le Pen does not believe it.
The candidate of the National Rally considered on Tuesday that Emmanuel Macron "will go to the end of his obsession" on retirement at 65 if he is re-elected.
The day before Emmanuel Macron had said he was ready to "move" and "open the door" to a postponement of the starting age to 64, rather than 65.
A "maneuver" vis-à-vis left-wing voters, denounces Marine Le Pen, campaigning to try to win the second round of the presidential election, interviewed on France Inter.
And to try to discredit the candidate: "I have no confidence in Emmanuel Macron, but none, and even less ten days before the second round" of the presidential election, she said.
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“There is nothing to expect from Emmanuel Macron in this area.
He will go to the end of this obsession, because in reality retirement at 65 is his obsession: he only talks about that, he only considers that, and he was very husband during the last five years of not being able to go to the end of this reform, ”added the Rassemblement national candidate.
While it was pointed out to her that she too had changed her mind over time, first promising retirement at age 60 with forty annuities before planning it only for French people who entered working life between 17 and 20, she argued that she "doesn't change her mind in two days".
“All French people are extremely intelligent, all have understood it is Emmanuel Macron's maneuver to try to recover, or in any case to attenuate, the opposition of left-wing voters”, she estimated.
Macron tries to listen
Emmanuel Macron said on Monday he was ready to "move" on the pension reform and to "open the door" to a postponement of the retirement age to 64, rather than 65, "if there is too much tension" and that it can "build consensus".
He also said that he "does not rule out a referendum on any reform whatsoever", including that of pensions.
While defending his proposal: “I say today the system is no longer funded.
If we accept a deficit on our pensions, that means:
our children, they are the ones who will pay
”, he declared on BFMTV before recalling his promise to index retirement pensions to inflation and to bring the minimum pension of 1,100 euros for full careers.
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Ms. Le Pen pinned the fact that the candidate president promises the possibility of having recourse to a referendum when "he has never used it in five years", and that the reform can take place at the end of the five-year term, " when he does not risk being sanctioned by the voters since, if indeed he is re-elected, he could not stand again”.
The president of RN Jordan Bardella also criticized on France 2 this "back machine" of the candidate president to "prevent part of the left from referring" to Marine Le Pen in the second round.
“Emmanuel Macron is everything and its opposite,” he said.