• The pension reform could never be done during the current five-year term, the fault of the coronavirus and a series of missed appointments.

  • Emmanuel Macron makes it one of the major projects of his candidacy for 2022 and of a possible new five-year term.

  • But between the 2017 version and the 2022 sketches, this famous reform has already changed a lot.

This is the first official measure of new candidate Emmanuel Macron's program for 2022. If the outgoing president is re-elected, the retirement age will be gradually extended to 65.

A project confirmed by the government spokesman, Gabriel Attal, on RTL this Thursday, after the information came out in

Les Echos

the day before.

Pension reform and Emmanuel Macron, however, is the story of several missed appointments.

Announced in 2017 during his campaign, put on the table at the end of 2019, the project had encountered strong opposition in the street, before the coronavirus came to freeze the project.

During the famous speech “We are at war” of March 16, 2020, announcing in particular the confinement, the president then indicated that “all the reforms in progress are suspended, starting with the pension reform”.

Later, during the deconfinement, the reform was again considered.

But each time, the coronavirus came back to impose itself in the news, to the point that the project was gradually abandoned.

So here is the pension reform officially back for this 2022 campaign. But in five years, candidate Macron has changed a lot of things in his plans.

20 Minutes

takes stock.

Starting age

Let's start with the obvious, and the main announcement for the moment of the project.

The retirement age would increase to 65 years, therefore, a novelty compared to five years ago.

On March 12, 2017, candidate Macron, interviewed on TF1, presented his reform projects and indicated that he would not touch "the retirement age during the five-year term", set at 62 years.

On his campaign site, ambiguity reigns: “There will always be a legal retirement age from which we can liquidate our rights.

He will remain at age 62.

But those who wish can choose to work longer in order to improve their pension.

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In 2019, when the Prime Minister at the time, Edouard Philippe, presented the reform project to the Economic, Social and Environmental Council and then on TF1, he announced the establishment of an "age of balance" set at 64 years old. , in order to receive a full pension, raising strong opposition.

“This time, there is no longer a pivotal age, no longer a balance age, and there is no longer any possible ambiguity.

Age is even the first announcement of this new reform.

It is indeed a postponement of retirement, ”notes Henri Sterdyniak, economist at the French Observatory of Economic Conditions (OFCE).

Five years later, Emmanuel Macron wants to make it clear.

A much less complex reform

In 2017, the candidate En Marche wants to reform the pension system in depth, to put in place "a universal pension system where one euro contributed gives the same rights, regardless of when it was paid, regardless of the status of one who has contributed,” according to his campaign site.

Everyone must be housed in the same boat and under a single regime: "Civil servants, employees, self-employed will all have the same rights, the calculation of the pension will be the same for all", specifies the site.

In the 2022 project, certain special regimes would be abolished, such as that of the RATP for example, indicated Gabriel Attal.

But that is the end of the project of universality.

“We no longer touch civil servants' schemes, we don't touch autonomous schemes, we don't harmonize the different statutes”, says Henri Sterdyniak.

This change has two advantages, analyzes the expert.

First, it should lead to much less protest, especially among higher professional categories, among Emmanuel Macron's biggest voters.

“Teachers and other civil servants without bonus systems were the main losers from the previous universal pension plan.

It is a base that knows how to make itself heard.

The 2022 version of the reform delays their retirement age, but does not address the specificities of their scheme,” says Henri Sterdyniak.

Second point: the reform, which requires far fewer in-depth changes, will be easier to implement: “The 2017 reform involved merging the very disparate schemes, between the retirement of airline pilots, lawyers, dentists, general practitioners… It could only be established after a long period of transition and development”, continues the economist.

Nothing to do now since "this time it is a parametric reform: we simply touch the starting age without changing the rest", synthesizes Henri Sterdyniak.

The minimum pension

Last change (for the time being), the minimum pension will be 1,100 euros, announced Gabriel Attal, against 1,000 euros in the 2017 project. But the progress is weak, estimates Henri Sterdyniak: “With inflation, 1,100 euros in 2022 correspond to 1,000 euros in 2017, or even less.

And it's weak to pass the pill of 65 years.

Not enough to make a major change, unlike the first two points.

For the economist, it is clear that "the 2022 reform has nothing to do with that of 2017".

Definitely a missed date for the latter.

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Presidential 2022: Emmanuel Macron proposes a gradual extension of the retirement age to 65

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Emmanuel Macron on TF1: “Work more”, special schemes… The Head of State gives details on the pension reform

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