Now in the midst of a storm over the pension reform he wants to complete, President Emmanuel Macron gave an interview to TF1 and France 2 journalists Marie-Sophie Lacarrau and Julian Bugier on Wednesday, March 22 at 1:00 PM. He also defended pension reform and said he was not afraid of his popularity falling in the coming weeks.
“We have to move forward because it is in the best interest of the nation. And I’m telling you this responsibly. I don’t want to be re-elected, constitutionally I can’t. But between the short-term polls and the general interest of the country, I choose the general interest of the country. And if necessary, behind it, to confirm what is not popular today, I will endorse it…‘, he explained.
He also used his passage to say what he thought about this reform. “As I speak to you, do you think I am happy to make this reform? NO. You think I couldn’t have made most of my predecessors and hid the dust under the rug? Yes, maybe, but if there is one thing that is real and I regret, we failed to share the restriction, or rather the need to carry out this reform. When I entered the working life, there were 10 million retirees, today there are 17 million retirees. It will be 20 million in the 2030s. Do you think we can continue with the same rules? We enter our professional life late and late. We’re alive and that’s a chance, later and later. We have a pay-as-you-use system, that is, we workers finance their pensions today, we do not finance ours, so yes 36 there is no solution, if we want the system to be balanced, it is now. The longer we wait, the worse it will get, so this reform is necessary, and I tell the French people, I don’t like it, I wish I didn’t, but that’s why I made a commitment to do it. with a sense of responsibilitysaid.
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Source: Programme Television
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