MADRID, 15 Abr. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The French government spokesman, Olivier Véran, reported this Saturday that the reform that raises the retirement age by two years will come into force on September 1.
“It is the September date that was chosen,” Véran pointed out in statements to the TF1 chain. He has also stressed that the retirement age will rise “little by little” from the current 62 years to 64. “At the end of the five-year term it will be 63 years old. We will have to wait until the next five-year presidential term” for it to rise at 64 years of age,” the spokesman said.
When questioned why the law was promulgated in the middle of the night from Friday to Saturday, Véran pointed out that the government “needs to move forward peacefully with the French and the social partners.” “It is not contradictory to have promulgated this law,” he stressed.
Véran has recognized that “the last few weeks have been difficult for many French people”, for which he has said that he is “convinced that there is a will, a need for appeasement in the country”. In this sense, he has assured that the president, Emmanuel Macron, “will immediately approach” the unions to talk.
The unions are the main conveners of the mobilizations in recent weeks against the pension reform and have warned that they will not sit down to negotiate unless the initiative is withdrawn, now converted into law after its publication in the Official Gazette of the Republic Francesa, the official gazette of the French state.
