Should we maintain the pension reform, repeal it, freeze it or adjust it? The debate still agitates the political class. “The French are asking for the repeal of pensions, we continue to ask for it,” Fabien Roussel declared this Sunday, December 15 on LCI. The national secretary of the PCF calls on the President of the Republic to succeed in reconciling the French by finding “the means” to repeal this reform. On France 3, Sophie Binet also maintained pressure on this emblematic reform of Emmanuel Macron’s second five-year term. She repeated that the objective of the CGT, of which she is general secretary, was the “repeal” of the reform: “We must block its application immediately and repeal it.”
Pension reform is one of the thorny issues on the table of François Bayrou, who is working to form his government. If certain political parties, on the left as in the RN, wish to return the legal starting age to 64, the new Prime Minister has never advocated this. At the time of the debates around the latest pension reform, the new head of government rather aligned himself with the position of the Macronists. He thus deemed it necessary on several occasions to push back the legal age of departure, to set it at 64 years and resolve the structural deficit of the old system.
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As TF1 Info reminds usduring his political career, François Bayrou often spoke of a flexible starting age, adaptable depending on the individual. What he summarized through a message posted on the social network ideal would be that everyone could choose their retirement, that everyone could also choose to possibly work longer.”
In 2023, the MoDem campaigned for a lowering of the full retirement age. Several of its deputies regretted that it had been set at 67 years by the last reform, which had led to the tabling of a series of amendments aimed at lowering this threshold by one year. François Bayrou and his supporters did not win their case, the text finally adopted having maintained the principle of a full rate accessible only from the age of 67. During the sometimes heated debates on the question of pensions, François Bayrou said he was “convinced” that it was possible to “find a better balance” and “search for better adjustments” on pensions. The historic ally of Emmanuel Macron has also regularly regretted a lack of pedagogy from the government during the pension reform.
In the past, François Bayrou has also spoken out in favor of the establishment of a points-based pension plan. The measure appeared in the MoDem program, defended by François Bayrou as the centrist party candidate during the 2007 and 2012 presidential elections. In 2012, François Bayrou was the only candidate to openly speak out for a pension plan. by points.