A long explanation in text to clear doubts. While his government has multiplied the bad sequences in recent weeks, between the use of 49.3, the random management of the gasoline shortage and the unprecedented price rise, Emmanuel Macron wanted to regain control of France 2 this Wednesday by the night.
• Retirement at age 65 “by 2035”
Without making new announcements about the pension reform that should reach the National Assembly next January, Emmanuel Macron wanted to clarify the contours.
“Starting in the summer of 2023 we will have to move the legal exit age four months a year. Thus, in 2025 we will be 63 years old, in 2028 at 64 years old and in 2031 at 65 years old, ”confirmed the president, but it opens the door to a postponement of the new legal age at 64 years.
• No indexation of salaries to inflation
Faced with inflation, at its highest level since 1987, Emmanuel Macron refused to index wages to rising prices, as the left demanded.
“I believe in the France of work and merit. (…). The solution is not to reindex wages upwards,” said the Elysée tenant.
He again asked for “social dialogue” to increase the salary of the French, judging that “it is not up to the State to decide.”
• Retired doctors working to fight medical deserts
Given the growing difficulties in finding a doctor or specialist, the president wants to encourage them to combine employment and pension.
“All doctors who retire: we will allow them to retire, but to continue working afterward, we will allow them to combine salaries and full pensions,” promised Emmanuel Macron.
• Maximum energy prices for companies
After recalling that the French will have a 15% increase in electricity and gas prices from January 2023, thanks to the price cap by the State, Emmanuel Macron announced a similar measure for companies.
“Without our intervention, we would be 100% like many of our neighbors,” explained the head of state.
• “Cynicism and disorder” of the Nupes
Emmanuel Macron shot his arrows against the Nupes, after the motion of censure on the left was voted on Monday with the votes of the RN.
“What makes me angry is the cynicism and disorder. They have shown that they are ready to go hand in hand with the RN while there is a war in Europe”, the forty-year-old scolded.
He also called the Nupes union, which brings together communists, rebels, socialists and environmentalists, a “baroque coalition.”
• “Working with LR parliamentarians”
The right in the National Assembly did not vote for any of the two motions of censure presented by the left and the RN. Which offer Emmanuel Macron the opportunity to get closer to them.
“Then I think we can work with these parliamentarians on various reforms such as pensions, renewable energy and nuclear,” said the president, given the lack of an absolute majority since the last legislative elections.
• “No existential link between immigration and insecurity”
After the Lola affair, in which the presumed murderer is a woman in an irregular situation, subject to the obligation to leave the territory, the president returned to the accusations of the right and the extreme right. Éric Zemmour, for example, related this murder to irregular immigration.
“I will never make an existential link between immigration and insecurity”, judged the President of the Republic.
Source: BFM TV
