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  • This Tuesday, at 5.30 p.m., Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne will unveil the content of the controversial pension reform wanted by Emmanuel Macron.

    At the heart of the tensions: the postponement of the legal age of departure to 64, even 65 years.

    This measure would be coupled with an extension of the contribution period, which would increase to 43 years before the 2035 horizon set by the Touraine reform of 2014.

  • Because of their relative majority, the government will have to seek partners in the National Assembly, as in the Senate.

    An agreement with the Republicans seems plausible, themselves defenders of the postponement of the legal retirement age to 64 years.

  • On the left, the opposition is not waiting for this afternoon's announcement to decry "hard, extremely violent reform", as PCF leader Fabien Roussel deplored on Tuesday on France 2. The numbers one of the main unions (CFDT , CGT, FO, CFE-CGC, CFTC, Unsa, Solidaires, FSU), also firmly opposed to this bill, will meet at the end of the afternoon at the Bourse du travail in Paris to call for a first day of demonstrations and strikes on January 19 or 24.

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10:08 a.m.: Demonstrations and strikes on January 19 or 24

Gathered at the end of the afternoon at the Bourse du travail in Paris, the numbers one of the eight major unions (CFDT, CGT, FO, CFE-CGC, CFTC, Unsa, Solidaires, FSU) should call for a first day of demonstrations and strikes on January 19 or 24.

“If Emmanuel Macron wants to make it his mother of reforms (…), for us it will be the mother of battles”, warns the boss of Force Ouvrière, Frédéric Souillot.

In the energy union strongholds, the RATP and the SNCF, the long-term extinction of the special regimes will provide additional arguments for mobilization.

10:07 am: Towards raising the legal retirement age to 64

The government could announce the raising of the legal retirement age to 64 instead of 62, gradually from autumn 2023. This measure would be coupled with an acceleration of the extension of the contribution period, which would increase to 43 years before the 2035 horizon set by the Touraine reform of 2014.

This postponement to 64 rather than 65 could earn the government the support of the LR right, which has been defending this option for years in the Senate.

The other oppositions and the unions are standing up against any increase in the legal age, believing that it would especially affect the most modest, who started working early and already have their quarters at 62 years old.

10:06 am: D-Day for an emblematic reform

The government presents its choices on Tuesday for the future of the pension system, the postponement of the legal retirement age announcing strong opposition in the streets and in Parliament, despite the promised “social justice” measures.

Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne unveils at 5:30 p.m. this reform wanted by Emmanuel Macron to "preserve" the pay-as-you-go pension system.

According to the executive, there is "urgency" to straighten out a regime which could post a deficit of around twenty billion euros in 2030.

9:41 am: "There is no justification for increasing the retirement age" for Fabien Roussel

On France 2, the national secretary of the PCF considered that "nothing justifies increasing the retirement age".

"We are asking for a great parliamentary debate [...] without 49.3 at the end" declared Fabien Roussel.

“This pension reform will engage the country in a deep crisis, because there will be tensions”, warned the leader of the PCF.

9:30 am: Welcome to this live!

Hello everyone.

This Tuesday, the pension reform, and its postponement of the legal retirement age, will be presented to the French at 5.30 p.m. by Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne.

With this tense project, the government will have to face the opposition, while negotiating with the right to allow it passage in the two chambers of Parliament without using 49.3.

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compiles for you the various reactions and political announcements on this controversial project and will be there to make you live the announcements of the Prime Minister.

  • Pension reform

  • Elisabeth Borne

  • Company

  • Politics

  • Union

  • Emmanuel Macron

  • 49-3