The leader of the LR deputies, Olivier Marleix, stressed this Monday night that he would not “support” the pension reform if it includes the postponement of the legal retirement age to 65, a “red cloth”, “too brutal”.
Asked about Emmanuel Macron’s decision to postpone the presentation of the reform to January 10, Olivier Marleix estimated in LCP that the president “had ended up getting scared” by dint of “shaking the 65-year figure.”
“S’il était sûr de lui sur la réforme, il n’aurait pas reculé, il ya un sujet sur le fond, il s’est rendu compte que cet âge de 65 ans était sans doute trop brutal”, at -he affirms .
63 years “wouldn’t be bad”
“To shake this figure of 65 today, when the government does not make any effort to reduce public spending, the French would not understand that, they would understand it as a provocation” and “we would not support this reform,” said the president. of the deputies of LR.
“We have to do a pension reform, we are going step by step, 63 years at the end of the five-year period, one quarter a year, that would not be bad,” said Olivier Marleix, who is due to go to Matignon on Wednesday for an exchange with Elisabeth Terminal.
Until presenting a motion of censure LR if the reform includes the postponement at 65? “It is part of the assumptions,” said the head of the right-wing group in the Assembly. Olivier Marleix, however, recognized different positions among the LR on the subject, while the postponement at 65 years appeared on Valérie Pécresse’s program in the last presidential elections.
“We cannot be asked to have a fully prepared proposal when we do not know the government’s project,” he minimized.
Source: BFM TV
