A few days before the presentation of the pension reform, Elisabeth Borne is trying to reassure the French. For the Prime Minister, the postponement of the legal retirement age to 65, defended by Emmanuel Macron during the presidential campaign, “is not a totem”, she said this Tuesday morning on France info.
“We carried the 65 years” but “it is not a totem”, she explained, adding to study “other solutions which make it possible to achieve our objective”, namely “the balance of the system retirement by 2030.
“What we want is to preserve our pay-as-you-go pension system. The number of assets financing pensions continues to decline. If we do not want to lower pensions, then we must gradually work longer, ”said Elisabeth Borne.
Presentation in a week
The pension reform will be presented on January 23 in the Council of Ministers and then examined in the National Assembly in early February, announced Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne on Tuesday on franceinfo.
This reform which must include a decline in the retirement age, rejected by all the unions, will be presented publicly on January 10, after final consultations with the social partners and the parliamentary groups. Ms. Borne did not specify what legal form it would take, amending budget text or ordinary bill.