Pension reform, which sparked strikes and demonstrations in France, did not help Emmanuel Macron’s popularity. Consensus for the president is at its lowest level since his re-election, with around 64% of the country’s citizens saying they don’t trust him. This was revealed by a survey by Le Figaro that showed the Renaissance leader’s popularity index dropped by five points in one month. After weeks of protests against the measure aimed at raising the age to leave work,
According to his advisers, Macron wants to “restore peace and confidence” and therefore the President planned to address the country at the end of parliamentary talks on pension reform. However, this won’t be easy when you take into account that only 64% of the French public do not trust them, and 41% do not trust them at all, an increase of 4% since the last survey. Another worrying factor is that the prime minister’s confidence index is following the same trend, according to the conservative newspaper, the country’s longest-running newspaper. The percentage of those who do not trust Elisabeth Borne has increased from 48% last June to 64% this month. Finally, all the ministers examined, especially those who came to the rescue to defend pension reform such as Gabriel Attal (Public Accounts) and Bruno Le Maire (Economics), are in sharp decline.
The government has chosen to increase years of work in response to the financial deterioration of pension funds and the aging of the population, and defends its project by presenting it as a “carrier of social progress”, claiming that it increases its value. small pensions. The measure aims to increase the minimum retirement age from the current 62 to 64 by 2030. To receive a full pension, the government’s recommendation requires at least 43 years of work. At 67, workers who have been inactive for that long will still receive a full pension. France is one of the European countries with the lowest legal retirement age. The age is 65 in Germany, Belgium and Spain, and 67 in Italy and Denmark.
Source: Today IT
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