INTERVIEW
On December 5, a massive mobilization is planned throughout France to protest the pension reform. "This reform is deeply unfair in part," says the ambassador of the poles and former Minister of Ecology Ségolène Royal, invited to speak on Monday about Europe 1. The various pension plans must, according to the project of the government, to merge into a universal point system and a retirement calculated over the entire career.
"The French want things to be reformed so that the pension system continues but the reform is felt very unfair," she says. "And that's normal: there were gifts made at the beginning of five-year to the richest and the stock market, which increased by 20% while wages do not increase."
"France today needs calm and unity"
Ségolène Royal admits, however, that "reform is necessary". She therefore calls for "suspend the reform to improve it". "The government wants to brutally reduce the 42 special diets to one regime: it's absolutely impossible to do," she says.
She is also alarmed at the obstinacy of the government despite the protests. "Today France needs calm and unity," she says. "We have been shaken for two or three years by a succession of reforms that do not entail the country's accession." The question to be asked is this: the inconveniences of obstinacy and the maintenance of a reform to which the French do not adhere does not bring more disadvantages than advantages? If the ego is so developed and if we are afraid of being criticized because we retreat, then we no longer has the ability to move. "
Ségolène Royal admits however that "the reform is complex" and "necessary". "The government wants to brutally reduce the 42 special diets to one regime: it's absolutely impossible to do," she says.