The mp LR wants to be critical of the government and believes that it is the notion of age is in the “heart” of the “pension system”.

The topic of pension reform is a particularly delicate matter for the executive, which wipes already critical. Emmanuel Macron “is mistaken”, commented, for example, Eric Woerth on Wednesday. For the mp, LR, this is the age of departure, which is “the heart of things” for the reform, while the head of State has preferred to highlight the contribution period.

The president said on Monday evening its preference, in the project to overhaul the pension system, for a calculation of the pension entitlements, related to the duration of the contribution rather than the age of starting, which would be more fair for those who started work early.

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“The president is wrong because it means that when you come home late, because you have done your studies, on the labour market, of course with an increase of the contribution period, you will not have a pension at the full rate that very, very late”, said on LCI the former minister of the Budget.

A “mixed message”

“It means that the president is saying to the French : if you want to leave in good time to retire, do not study, this is what he is trying to say”, he continued. According to him, this is “a message that is inconsistent” when, by the way, “we say to the French that the key against unemployment, it is the qualification”.

The mp LR has denounced a “lack of courage” on the part of the executive. “Sometimes you have to accept to be confronted with the public opinion or for the trade unions, this is not only to bring pleasure to the CFDT, which will save the world, the planet, and the France”, he ironisé.

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The topic will be on the agenda on 5 and 6 September interview at Matignon with the social partners. The French will also be consulted in the autumn, in a form to be determined.