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Jordan Bardella stated on Tuesday, June 25 during a debate on TF1 that an active person who started working at 24 could retire at 66. A statement that casts doubt on the RN’s program, and which its executives are trying to clarify this Wednesday.
Slight moment of hesitation on TF1 this Tuesday evening. During the debate between him and Gabriel Attal and Manuel Bompard, Jordan Bardella caused trouble in his ranks, by mentioning a possible retirement at 66 for a Frenchman who started working at 24.
Recognizing a “record public deficit” forcing him to “make choices”, Marine Le Pen’s protégé affirmed that if his party won on July 7, a person who started working at 24 would leave at retirement “with 42 years of contributions, that is to say 66 years”.
“For a very simple reason: when you started working later, it is normal that you will have to work later,” he said. On the other hand, Jordan Bardella reiterated his intention to allow, for “those who started working before the age of 20”, to “leave with a contribution period of 40 years and a legal retirement age of 60”.
This exit blurred the lines within the RN, where, just a week ago, they promised to repeal Emmanuel Macron’s pension reform. Several party executives thus embarked on a mine-clearing operation this Wednesday, June 26, like Sébastien Chenu, who affirmed on LCI that everyone would always have “a possibility of leaving at 62, but indeed, afterwards, you look whether it’s full rate or not full rate.” This would thus “save a year on the current reform” with which “a person who enters the job market at 24 would leave at 67”, he added.
Odoul to the rescue, Lavalette gets confused
Julien Odoul, spokesperson for the RN, did not say anything else at the microphone of RMC: “For those who started working after 20 years, it is a departure at 62 years old, and then it will depend on age which we started working on. And the former deputy for Yonne continued: an active person who started working “at 24, he will leave at 66, that is to say one year less than the age [légal de départ] of the Macron reform, which is 67 years old.
Others, like Laure Lavalette, got their brushes slightly tangled. On BFMTV, she affirmed that with the reform of the RN, “those (who started at) 24 could leave at 60 but not at full retirement”.
A declaration which therefore contrasts with the “pivotal age” of 62 years put forward by Jordan Bardella, and which should give new ammunition to the adversaries of the National Rally.
