The measure had unofficially leaked in the press in recent days, it is now confirmed.
Late Tuesday afternoon, Élisabeth Borne unveiled the main lines of the pension reform, which the government aims to come into force on September 1, 2023. The opportunity for the Prime Minister to announce that the legal retirement age will be gradually shifted, at the rate of three months per year of birth.
The latter will therefore be 63 years and 3 months in 2027 - at the end of Emmanuel Macron's five-year term -, then 64 years in 2030. An
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which will be effective and applied to the generation of French people born in and after September 1961.
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This is a year less than Emmanuel Macron's departure promise during the last presidential campaign.
The candidate then presented his program by making retirement at 65 one of the major axes of his possible second five-year term.
During the in-between rounds, to better attract the votes of the left, the president-candidate had then watered down his wine, and opened the door to an age measurement placed at 64 years.
