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Pensions: "what the president is about to do is madness", says Ruffin

2022-09-28T09:23:21.002Z


LFI deputy François Ruffin estimated on Wednesday that the pension reform desired and announced by President Emmanuel Macron was "a...


LFI deputy François Ruffin estimated on Wednesday that the pension reform desired and announced by President Emmanuel Macron was "

madness

" in a country "

exhausted

" and "

exasperated

" by two years of Covid-19, inflation and "

democratic fatigue

”.

"

I'm going to try to be solemn: I think what the President of the Republic is about to do is madness

," said the Somme deputy on the

franceinfo

set a few hours before a dinner was held. decision of the majority, around the president, on this subject.

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"

When we had two years of Covid crisis, when we have a people who are exhausted, who are exhausted, when they (Emmanuel Macron, editor's note) were finally re-elected without momentum, without enthusiasm, when they have a majority of a hitch in the National Assembly (...), that we are about not to know if we will be able to pay our bills, that we have an inflation crisis, that salaries are not keeping up

, "said he listed, recalling polls showing that a large majority of French people do not want reform.

Denying the very usefulness of the reform, he felt that “

we are instilling resentment in the hearts of people

”.

Retirement is injustice above the others

”, he further argued, referring

to “people who wonder how already, they will be able to work until 60 years old

”.

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President Macron receives Wednesday evening with Elisabeth Borne the main leaders of the majority, divided on how to carry out this reform, in order to decide on the method: amendment, ad hoc text or amending budget for Social Security.

The final decision is expected "

by the end of the week

".

Campaign promise the reform, which should in particular raise the legal retirement age, must, according to the executive, bring the system into balance and create room for maneuver to finance education, health or the energy transition.

Source: lefigaro

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