The president of Medef, Geoffroy Roux de Bezieux, said Tuesday on France Inter that the economy of raising the retirement age amounted to "lying by omission to the French."
Asked about his reaction to Emmanuel Macron's proposal for an overhaul of the pension system on the basis of a contribution period rather than an increase in the age of departure, Geoffroy Roux de Bézieux stated that "you have to do both"
"I hope it's not a maneuver to bury the reform"
"We have a financial stalemate in 2025 and it will increase the number of annuities and go to 43, but we will not economize the age and it is lying by omission to the French to say the opposite" , he said.
"I will not accuse the President of the Republic of falsehood by omission, I simply want to say that the truth is that we are in a system" where it is "the assets that pay for retirees," continued President of Medef. "I hope this is not a maneuver to bury the reform," said Geoffroy Roux de Bézieux.
"In the private sector, people leaving today leave at 63"
"We are the only country in the world to have 100%" intergenerational distribution in our pension system, he said, while funded retirement prevails in the United States and Germany has a mixed system .
Moreover he stressed that "the truth today is that in the private retirement today is not at 62. In the private, people who leave today leave at 63" on average.
While he is in favor of a general increase in the retirement age because of the aging of the population, which threatens the financial balance of the system, Geoffroy Roux de Bézieux, on the other hand, has declared himself in favor of his individualisation "to take into account counts people who started working early. "