Faced with the prefects gathered at the Elysée, the Head of State however hammered that pension reform “is a necessary reform”.
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“Seek the compromise” on a thorny issue. Emmanuel Macron assured, Thursday, September 15, that the government would carry out the pension reform “through social consultation”. Before the prefects gathered at the Elysée, the Head of State affirmed that the pension reform “is a necessary reform” because it is necessary to “work longer in a nation where people live longer and enter working life later on average”.
Emmanuel Macron did not give details on the method and the timetable, while some members of the majority want this reform to be adopted this fall as part of the Social Security budget bill (PLFSS) for 2023 , despite strong opposition from unions and the left. The PLFSS must be presented to the Council of Ministers on September 26, debated in committee at the National Assembly and then from October 20 in the hemicycle in first reading.
Emmanuel Macron was committed during the presidential campaign to “shift the legal retirement age to 65”against 62 currently, at a rate of “four months a year” until “mid-2030s”. It is no longer necessarily a question of such a postponement, but in particular of an extension of the contribution period.