Emmanuel Macron has not buried his pension reform

Text by: Anthony Lattier Follow

Emmanuel Macron has not abandoned the pension reform project that had been stopped dead in March by the coronavirus crisis.

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It had provoked weeks of demonstrations in France. The government even had to use 49-3 to get it adopted. But on March 16, during his speech on the measures taken to deal with the coronavirus epidemic, Emmanuel Macron had announced: the pension reform is "  suspended  ".

Everyone then saw in it a first class burial of one of the flagship reforms of the quinquennium on which the government had been working for several months. "  The urgency, from now on, is not pensions but to get the country  started again ," slipped a minister a few days ago. The leader of the assembly walkers Gilles Le Gendre himself said in April that he wanted to "  put aside  " this reform.

But the President of the Republic is not of this opinion. "  This site will be reopened,  " says an adviser to Emmanuel Macron, for whom the reform was "  interrupted  " and not buried. No question, however, of bringing out the original copy. In these reflections, the Head of State would rather “  take up elements of the reform, which concerns social justice in particular  ”, we continue in the entourage of the president. Which ? Nothing has stopped yet. But Emmanuel Macron, who promised to “reinvent himself” after the crisis, does not intend to “deny himself” so far ...

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