The discussions already promise to be difficult.

Several unions on Tuesday reaffirmed their refusal to raise the retirement age, denouncing an “unfair” reform a few hours before being received at Matignon for final consultations.

Since then, the Prime Minister assured Tuesday morning that the postponement of the legal retirement age to 65, defended by Emmanuel Macron during the presidential campaign, "is not a totem".

"The reform as it is now envisaged will create a lot of social conflict", warned

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the secretary general of the CFDT, Laurent Berger, repeating that “the age measurement is a red line”.

The leader of the first French union disputes two arguments of the President of the Republic, during his greetings to the French on Saturday: “first of all he said that the pension system was in a very critical situation (…) There is , certainly, a deficit but it is one of the weakest deficits that there was before a reform.

In 2003, the question of the viability of the system was raised, in 2013 the same, today, that is not the case, there is no fire in the house”.

In addition, "the President said: 'what we are doing will make the system fairer', but this is false and archi-false because we first punish those who have difficult jobs and who started early", he continued.

Mobilizations to be expected

The ceditist puts forward “other possible financing measures”, such as an improvement in the employment rate for seniors, with “penalties” for “companies which would not have good results”.

“If on January 10, there are announcements with a postponement of the legal age to 65 or 64, the CFDT, like the other trade unions, will call on employees to mobilize against this measure”, insisted Laurent Berger, who will be the first to be received at Matignon, at 3 p.m.



Same determination with Frédéric Souillot, his FO counterpart received at 7 p.m.: “if we are told to lower the retirement age or extend the contribution period, it will get stuck (…) There will be mobilization and strong mobilization” .

"Today, in addition to all the trade unions, a majority of French people are against a lowering of the retirement age or an extension of the contribution period", he recalled.

The president of the CFE-CGC, François Hommeril, also promised on France Info to join the demonstrators if the government persisted in its project, judging that the reform is “very unfair” and that it “is not justified. by questions of budgetary balance.

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