Purchasing power, inflation… but also pensions. While Emmanuel Macron proposed during the presidential campaign to “shift the legal age” of retirement “by four months a year” to bring it “in 2031 to 65 years”, with a device of “long careers” and another of “arduousness”, Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne defends this project this Sunday, in an interview with the JDD. And tackle “those who would like to believe (that the pension reform) is not essential”: they “do not tell the truth to the French”, affirms the head of government.
Retirement at 65 “is not a totem”
“The challenge for our country is to ensure the strength of our social model, to pursue social progress and to invest, particularly in health and education”, pleads Élisabeth Borne. “The President of the Republic has made clear commitments: no tax increase, no increase in debt. However, we are living longer and longer, the ratio between the number of working people and the number of retirees is decreasing… If we want to preserve the pay-as-you-go pension system, to which our fellow citizens are attached, we will have to gradually work a little longer “.
Retirement at 65 “is not a totem”, she assures us, “but we must ensure the financing of our social model. And to announce to the French that they are going to work less, to brandish retirement at 60, is to lie to them. That’s what the RN did for years. It is also a measure found in the Nupes program and which is not credible. The way promises tomorrow, we shave for free, the French don’t believe it. I will not lie to them”.