THE CHEKING PROCESS – Many left-wing elected officials have cited figures for a few days highlighting the inequalities in retirement and death. Is right ?
This is a figure taken up at will by opponents of the pension reform, to the chagrin of the executive: a quarter of French people would have already died before reaching the current legal retirement age, set at 62, according to some, when others speak rather of the French “the poorest». «When you reach 65, it’s a third of the people who are dead“, also alerted the rebellious deputy Clémence Guetté, on France 5, at the beginning of January, underlining the determining role of work in this observation.
The elected official is far from the only one to cite this macabre figure, a symbol of inequality in the face of retirement and death. “We are told that we will have to increase the retirement age. I point out to you that a quarter of the French are already dead at 62“, assured the mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, during the presidential campaign, last March. A little earlier, in December 2021, the left-wing candidate had already insisted on the “fundamental right to rest after a lifetime of work“. But the number she was relying on was a bit different:25% of the poorest die before the age of 62“, she specified then.
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«No, 25% of French people have not died at retirement age“, Denied for his part the spokesman of the government, Olivier Véran. So what do the numbers really say? The observation…
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