We haven’t heard from him in recent years, since 2019 more precisely and the announcement of his laryngeal cancer. Nevertheless, Françoise Hardy wanted, this Sunday, April 9, to confide in the columns of the JDD. She is questioned about her life, her work, her fight against illness… but also about the current pension reform which plans to raise the legal retirement age from 62 to 64 and which is raising general mobilization in France. .
On March 22, more than 300 personalities from the world of culture signed an open letter to the President of the Republic in the columns of the newspaper Release to affirm their opposition to the text and to the government’s use of force of Article 49.3.
For his part, the interpreter of Personal message admits she wouldn’t have “surely not” signed this letter and explained: “I am interested in economic realities and I understand that there are several compelling reasons to carry out pension reform”, she assures before adding: “All European countries have set the retirement age at 65, 66 or 67, except ours, which has the highest public expenditure in Europe. […] And then retirees are living longer and longer and currently we don’t even have two assets for one retiree.”says Françoise Hardy.
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“I am ashamed of what is happening in a France that allows itself to be manipulated”
Jacques Dutronc’s ex also confides: “To tell you the truth, I am ashamed of what is happening in a France that allows itself to be manipulated and misinformed by extremists, left or right: the LFI, Nupes, Marine Le Pen, etc.” , continues the singer who claims not to feel “nor from the right – especially at the moment – and even less from the left” also denouncing the “repeated strikes” Who “aggravate” according to her “the economic situation with the transport problems they cause” : “(These strikes) prevent many people from going to work normally and even some of them from working”, analyzes the singer.
But the comments of the one who appeared in the ranking of the 200 best singers of all time in the magazine RollingStone in 2023, unleash a wave of protest on the Web! Examples ? “ Whether they send her to work in construction, in a factory or with the fire brigade, whether she realizes that working until she is 64 to repay the COVID debt (…”; “Never disappointed by these “artists” who have lived lavishly on the money of the public, which they despise to the highest point.”; or “it’s sure you don’t get up at 4am to go to work when I hear its people who live with their dough criticizing the country it drives me crazy ASHAMED”…
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