The pension reform "will be done before the end of the five-year term"

Laurent Pietraszewski -

It was suspended in March due to the health crisis linked to the coronavirus pandemic.

But the Secretary of State in charge of the file, Laurent Pietraszewski, assures us: the pension reform "will be done before the end of the five-year term".

"We have a commitment with the French, to transform our pension system to make it something fairer, more united," said the Secretary of State on RTL.

Adoption at first reading by the Assembly

This reform, which had caused two months of trade union and political rebellion before the epidemic, was "suspended" in mid-March after its adoption at first reading in the National Assembly.

President Macron, however, estimated, on July 14, that France could not "save a reform" of its pension system, while acknowledging that the government's plan could not be maintained as conceived before. the health crisis.

Prime Minister Jean Castex then announced on July 17 that he was postponing this key social reform.

He promised a "new method", distinguishing the "structural character" of the project "which aims at more justice" and its "financial component".

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