“Preserving our pay-as-you-go pension system”
is the motivation that the government continues to put forward to defend its much-maligned pension reform.
For many weeks, the members of the executive have been taking turns day after day to remind them of the merits of their project.
And this reform is
"essential"
to finance the system, hammered again Sunday on Europe 1, Aurore Bergé, the president of the Renaissance group in the Assembly, faced with a text which two thirds of the French still do not want.
According to the current scenario, the deficit of the pension financing system would reach 13.5 billion euros by 2030. The stated objective of the reform is to fill this hole.
And, to achieve this, the government is counting on the two-year postponement of the legal retirement age together with the increase in the contribution period to 43 years.
Together, these two measures promise to bring in 17.7 billion euros, enough to leave in theory…
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