Europe 1 11:46 a.m., January 21, 2023

In a tweet, the American billionaire expressed his support for pension reform and the French government.

Under a video taken in Lyon during the mobilization last Thursday, Elon Musk commented "Macron makes a difficult, but fair decision".

The boss of Tesla and Twitter had met the French president last December.

"Macron makes a difficult but fair decision."

This Friday evening, the French government obtained unexpected support on the pension reform.

That of Elon Musk.

On his social network Twitter, the American billionaire commented on a video taken in Lyon during the mobilization against the reform last Thursday.

He wrote in particular: "Retirement at 62 was set when life expectancy was shorter. It is impossible for a small group of workers to support the massive number of retirees".

Macron is doing the difficult, but right thing.

The retirement age of 62 was set when lifespans were much shorter.

It is impossible for a small number of workers to support a massive number of retirees.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 20, 2023

The publication of course did not go unnoticed, with more than 64,000 likes and nearly 3,900 retweets, and caused many opponents to postpone the retirement age to react.

"A reform supported by a billionaire is ALWAYS a bad and useless reform"

This is particularly the case of the deputy of Essonne de la Nupes, Antoine Léaument, who replied to the billionaire: "A reform supported by a billionaire is ALWAYS a bad and useless reform. It is impossible for a large number of workers to support a small number of billionaires".

A reform supported by a billionaire is ALWAYS a bad and useless reform.



It is impossible for a large number of workers to support a small number of billionaires.

— Antoine Léaument (@ALeaument) January 21, 2023

This Thursday, between 1 million, according to the police, and 2.2 million French people, according to the CGT, demonstrated against the pension reform and the increase in the retirement age to 64 years.

According to the latest figures from INSEE, life expectancy has stagnated since 2019 and is currently at 85.2 years for women, compared to 79.3 years for men.

The boss of Tesla and Emmanuel Macron met last December in the United States and discussed content moderation on Twitter.