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In an interview with Parisian published Monday evening, the president of the RN confirms for his part that “the pension reform will be repealed from the fall because it is economically inefficient and socially unjust.”
A cloud has appeared in the partly shared sky of the Republicans and the National Rally, whose presidents have sealed an alliance with a view to the legislative elections of June 30 and July 7. What about the pension reform adopted in 2023, which pushed back the legal retirement age to 64, if the coalition of “national camp” won this early ballot? During the debates that shook the country a year and a half ago, the positions were, to say the least, irreconcilable. If the flame party was in favor of a threshold ranging from 60 to 62 years depending on the number of quarters contributed, a majority of LR lieutenants denounced a aggiornamento too moderate. And advocated leaving at 65.
How to govern with such an ideological gap? Guest Monday evening of “20 hours” from France 2, the deputy for Alpes-Maritimes affirmed that“it is not said that the pension reform will be repealed.” “There is a question about long careers, for those who started very early”, he further argued. After an initial dedicated time “the emergency”, the alliance, hypothetically victorious, will see if “it has room for maneuver which will be given” by an audit of public accounts. While a little music suggested that the Lepenists would abandon the promised repeal, once they came to power, the boss of the RN made a clarification.
“Time for reforms”
In an interview with Parisian , Jordan Bardella, who is eyeing Matignon, reveals what the first months of his action would look like. When the second phase opens, the one “reforms”that of retirements will indeed be “repealed because it is economically inefficient and socially unjust.” “We will allow long-term careers, those who started working before the age of 20, to retire with 40 years at a legal retirement age of 60,” he explains. Before sending a dig to his Republican partner: “It is the RN which leads this coalition”.
A little earlier, the outgoing RN deputy for the Somme Jean-Philippe Tanguy had justified this two-stage schedule so as not to “make a mess” during the Olympic Games. A way of giving temporality, after the procrastination of its leader Jordan Bardella who had judged this question “important” without being “urgent” last week on France 2. And not to lose voters, sensitive to the social question, within two weeks. Enough to get lost in conjectures. This imbroglio shows a major divergence between the presidents of the RN and LR, which could give food for thought to the oppositions.
During his press conference on Wednesday June 11, the President of the Republic showed irony, criticizing alliances on the right and the left “against nature”who does not “agree on almost nothing except the positions to be shared and will not be able to implement any program”. “Do we think for a single second that Mr. Ciotti, who wanted to go further than the government, will govern with Mr. Bardella, who has been promising for years to return to 60 or 62 years old… We no longer know each other very well. What is the coherence that unites these people to govern?had criticized the head of state, according to whom the boss of the right had done “a pact of the devil”.