The head of state goes Thursday to Rodez, in Aveyron, to participate in a debate on the explosive theme of pensions. A choice dictated by the desire to calm oppositions and the need to convince the French on several key points of the reform.

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The image was familiar: Emmanuel Macron in shirt arms in the middle of a large audience, answering the interpellations of a room not necessarily acquired to his cause. This reminiscence of the "great debate" will reappear Thursday, while the head of state goes to Rodez, Aveyron, to answer the questions of 500 readers of the press group The Dispatch on the explosive subject of pensions.

A debate, because "the French do not understand anything"

The consultation will last until the end of the year with dozens of meetings, with or without the presence of the Head of State. This time, unlike the crisis of "yellow vests", it is to avoid the fire rather than extinguish it. Emmanuel Macron knows it: the pension reform is explosive. "The French do not understand anything," worries a minister to Europe 1. "We must get out of the discussion of specialists, otherwise it will go wrong."

" In this type of event, there are as many viewers as a football match "

The evening of exchanges in a hall of the city of Aveyron will allow him to "lift the fantasies and worries, as well as rest the frame," says one of his relatives. With this direct debate, Emmanuel Macron also intends to reach a large audience: "In this type of event, there are as many viewers as a football match", exaggerates a little part of the majority. But Emmanuel Macron will not multiply these great debates. Jean-Paul Delevoye, appointed Minister for Pension Reform, and Philippe, will also participate in some of the 150 public meetings scheduled for the coming months.

The level of pensions and the age of departure are worrying

A considerable device that can be explained by the government's willingness to raise concerns on several points of this reform. For the executive, it is necessary to prove to the French that they will always have a retirement tomorrow, one recognizes in high place. Meetings should be an opportunity to respond to lies and to fight against them, according to a relative of the president who will participate in the debates.

Among the issues that are worrying, the amount of pensions is high. The government will have to prove that switching to a point system does not lower the level of pensions. This subject is arduous, because the amount of the point may sometimes go down. It is by this angle that the CGT criticizes the government.

The age of retirement should be one of the central themes discussed at these meetings. If the legal age is maintained at 62, it will take a little more work to have a full pension. This is also one of the points still to be decided. Finally there is the explosive subject of special regimes and autonomous regimes. The reform, which aims to put everyone on the same rules, goes badly among lawyers or the RATP, including.