The former Prime Minister is in favor of postponing the legal age “to 65, 66 or 67”. Emmanuel Macron said he wanted to quickly carry out a pension reform for application from the summer of 2023.
Former Prime Minister Edouard Philippe called on the executive to “move a loton pensions, again pleading for a postponement of the retirement age, to 65 or even 67, in an interview with Parisian released on Saturday. “I have always said that I considered that it was necessary to move on the retreats, to move a lot“, he declared, recalling having spoken as early as last year “a postponement of the legal age to 65, 66 or 67».
«My goal is not to plead for the hardest solution to piss the world off.“Assures the boss of the Horizons party, which forms the right wing of the majority. “All the countries of the European Union are faced with the same aging of their populations as we are. Whether they are Liberals, Christian Democrats, Social Democrats, they have all chosen the solution of postponing the retirement age“, he underlines again, citing the examples of Germany and Italy which “have chosen 67 years».
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«I don’t know by what miracle of the mind we could be in a situation radically different from that of our neighbors“, Argues the former resident of Matignon, who had himself tried to carry out a pension reform, before it was interrupted by the Covid. Following a promise from his re-election campaign, Emmanuel Macron affirmed his intention to quickly carry out a pension reform, for application from the summer of 2023, with a gradual shift in the retirement age to 65.
Reduce the public expenditure deficit
«If we’re 65 and it works, that’s fine with me“, assures Edouard Philippe. “And if we leave later, we must improve the system by introducing more justice, and of course taking into account long careers“, he continues. According to Edouard Philippe, expressing his concern about “a large deficit and rising public spending“, a reform of pensions is one of the tracks which should make it possible to limit the indebtedness of France. In this perspective, Edouard Philippe observes that the executive has set “a return to 3% (of GDP, editor’s note) in the deficit around 2027».
«We are the only country to set this course. The others have a 2025 target“, he notes. “We always spend more without our fellow citizens feeling that things are going much better“, further supports Edouard Philippe, calling in particular for a review of the housing policy which is, according to him, “become largely inefficient and therefore far too expensive for what you get.Asked about migration policy, the former Prime Minister believes that establishing “quotas par professions“seems to him”perfectly possible».
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«We need skills, to bring people. Even with an unemployment rate of 7%, it is difficult to recruit in certain fields“, he argues. Given among the contenders for the 2027 presidential election, Edouard Philippe protests against “the kind of collective madnesswhich consists in beingtotally in the moment, personalization». «Me, I never burn the steps“, he retorts, while acknowledging that “getting ready never hurts».
«I understood that in 2024, Renaissance would choose how to determine its candidate. When the time comes, Horizons too, and I think that with us, there will be no primary“, he slips. Concerning Horizons, which will hold a congress “in the first quarter of 2023“, Edouard Philippe claims to bring together”nearly 20,000 paying members“one year after its creation, “more than 380 mayors» et «more than 500 municipal committees».
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