DECRYPTION – Thursday evening, the new Prime Minister put this explosive file back on the table. Two years ago, a few weeks before the presentation of the pension reform, he expressed alarm in a note about the “significant structural deficit” of the system.
“Resume without suspending” pension reform. Thursday evening, on France 2, François Bayrou said he was ready to reopen this explosive issue, which had put thousands of French people on the streets for weeks at the start of 2023. The new Prime Minister reached out to the social partners and the forces politicians, asking them to think about “a different organization” of the pension system by September. “I accept that we reopen all subjects”he declared, even saying “believe” that there is an alternative to the legal age of 64.
The president of MoDem also recalled that he had intervened in the debate on pension reform, in particular by writing “an analysis of the financing of the retirement system in which I showed that this financing was shaky, questionable”. A reference to the alarmist note published in December 2022 by the man who was still High Commissioner for Planning.
In this document of around twenty pages, François Bayrou alerted…
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