While the President of the Republic raised the burning subject of pension reform during his wishes to the French, the opposition firmly responded to Emmanuel Macron.
Recalling, if some still doubted it, that the debates on this bill would be very tense at the start of the school year.
The Head of State confirmed that a reform (in particular on the retirement age) would be initiated and applied in 2023, without specifying the outlines.
The government must present it on January 10.
"This year will indeed be that of a pension reform which aims to ensure the balance of our system for the years and decades to come", and to "consolidate our pay-as-you-go pension system", he said. declared.
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While the new rules "will apply from the end of the summer of 2023", "the extension of our working careers will be gradual, it will be done in stages over almost ten years" and "will also be fair taking into account the long careers, choppy careers, the difficulty of certain tasks, of certain professions”, tried to reassure the Head of State.
"The President of the Republic has recalled his course, and it is very important (...) To save the pay-as-you-go pension system, we must reform it", then abounded on BFM TV Marlène Schiappa, Secretary of State in charge of Social and Solidarity Economy and Associative Life.
"A terrible decision against the opinion of the French"
On the left and in the trade unions, the head of state's speech was unanimously criticized.
Céline Verzeletti, Confederal Secretary of the CGT, quipped at the microphone of BFMTV: “The year of pension reform?
It will rather be the year of strikes, mobilizations and demonstrations!
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"It's a terrible decision against the opinion of all French people," said MP (LFI) Raquel Garrido on LCI.
And his companion Alexis Corbière, also a deputy, to do the same on France Info: “The Nation cannot be united if a reform is imposed on it which it does not want.
" Jean-Luc Mélenchon, he preferred to use irony: "After five years of Macron's wishes, I think they are bad luck.
16 degrees in Paris on December 31.
It's going to be hot in January!
Happy New Year, ”wrote the leader of La France insoumise on Twitter.
“Number of self-satisfaction of a president obliged to appeal to the unity of the French….
So his policy divides us and hurts us.
We will not let a pension reform pass that will force us to work longer from 2023!
“, took date, for his part, the national secretary of the Communist Party Fabien Roussel.
“See you in the street!
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Marine Tondelier, the national secretary of the Greens considered, on Europe 1, that the president "lies".
“When he says that the pension system is in deficit.
(…) It is an ideological reform.
In reality, if we want pensions in 30 years, it's the climate that we have to deal with.
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“We will be mobilized!
“, added the spokesperson of the PS, Gabrielle Siry.
“See you in the streets and in the strikes”, promised the NPA candidate, Philippe Poutou.
On the right, the reactions are also severe within the oppositions.
Among the LRs, Bruno Retailleau saw "a president disconnected from the concerns of the French and the solutions to be provided".
"Presidential satisfaction has something surreal", also writes the president of the group Les Républicains in the Senate.
Emmanuel Macron "was not very clear" on the pension reform, for his part judged the vice-president of the National Rally Sébastien Chenu.
For the rest, the president “avoided the main thing”: “debt, purchasing power and insecurity”, concluded the deputy from the North.