The president of the Hauts-de-France region, Xavier Bertrand, still a member of the LR but who has just created a new right-wing party, said this Sunday “ready to support” a pension reform.
On BFMTV, the former candidate for the LR primaries for the presidential election said that he was in favor of “working a little more”, a “central path” according to him, compared to the other two, which are the reduction of benefits or the increase in contributions.
The Executive wants to start a consultation this week with political parties and social partners on the issue of its pension reform, whose objective is to progressively raise the retirement age to 65 by 2031.
“Ready to support the pension reform”
Olivier Marleix, leader of the LR deputies, said he wanted the working day to come “gradually to 64 years”.
“I am willing to support a pension reform that contains efforts because we must ensure the balance of the system to pay pensions, not to save money, but clearly we need justice and a true ad hoc text”, advocated on BFMTV Xavier Bertrand, who had led a pension reform in the late 2000s under Nicolas Sarkozy.
According to him, “from the moment you ask for an effort, you must have justice.” But “the French injustice is the time you have left to live in good health when you retire,” he explained, citing the case of physically demanding jobs: “Those need to go first. That’s where the justice is.”
Xavier Bertrand criticizes the perspective of a “forced step”
Xavier Bertrand, who launched his “We France” movement on Saturday, also rejected the prospect of a “resounding approval” in Parliament, “because otherwise, from the beginning, he will not have the support of the French.”
Long careers, hard work, “preventing burnout at work”, “issues of end-of-career planning and the transition between employment and retirement”, “employment of the elderly and combating discrimination in that older people can be targeted”. victims”, “special regimes”, “the revaluation (to 1,100 euros, editor’s note) of the minimum pension for people who have had a complete career” are some of the issues open to consultation, the Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne.
Source: BFM TV
