Geoffroy Roux de Bézieux, the president of Medef, on November 10, 2020 in Courbevoie.

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The pension reform should not be initiated until the economy has picked up, estimated the president of Medef, Geoffroy Roux de Bézieux, this Friday, who is in favor of a lowering of the retirement age .

"If indeed we have an economy that is on the ground because the epidemic lasts, because we can not start again, we must not add a complicated reform to a difficult economic situation", declared the president of the employers' organization on BFM Business.

The point system, a "very anxiety-provoking" system

"But if we leave quickly, then yes, we will have to ask the question" because "we have a financial subject" and "a subject of lifespan, of life expectancy", according to Geoffroy Roux de Bézieux.

He reiterated his criticism of the points system proposed by the government "which may appear on paper to be an intelligent system", but "is very anxiety-provoking.

The French did not have confidence before the epidemic, I think they do not have more confidence after ”.

In an interview with the regional newspapers of the Ebra group on December 8, the president of Medef had judged that "the" parametric "part of the reform, which aims to reduce the deficit, must begin to be implemented before 2022".

The government's pension reform plan was put on hold earlier this year due to the pandemic.

The Minister of the Economy Bruno Le Maire, however, assured on December 1 on LCI that it would be the "absolute priority for reforms the day we begin the reforms", once France has found the path to growth.

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