The Head of State granted a series of interviews to the newspaper L’Opinion, published this Sunday. He returns in particular to the pension reform, which he continues to assume, castigating the “denial of realities” of the “extreme”.
After Elisabeth Borne, it is Emmanuel Macron’s turn to speak in the press this Sunday to continue to defend the pension reform. In a series of interviews given to the newspaper L’Opinion this Sunday, the Head of State assumes his reform, and castigates the “denial of reality” of the “extreme”.
If he affirms that “the work of conviction must continue”, and regrets not having “succeeded in explaining sufficiently the need for this reform”, he castigates those who “claimed that the reform could be avoided, without saying what they were proposing instead”, while the Liot group’s bill to repeal the reform is to be discussed in the Assembly on June 8.
“There will first have to be a debate where everyone will have to take their responsibilities and explain how we finance! We cannot escape the debate when we are a republican political force, when we are a union in the republican field, when we is an employer force… This is the truth that we owe to the French”, sweeps the head of state.
“I do not share the opinion of those who claim that 64 years is two years of sacrificed life”
And Emmanuel Macron to continue: “Not everyone agrees not to work longer? Agreed. But then explain to me how, without reform, to finance a bill of 15 billion euros. By the deficit, with future interest? By reducing other public policies? By lowering pensions? By increasing contributions? Some say “the big salaries have to pay”. also have to pay”.
“All those who contribute to the denial of reality are preparing for the arrival of the extremes. Because the denial of reality is the fuel of the extremes”, continues Emmanuel Macron in this interview.
The president, who claims to believe “in emancipation through work”, explains that he does not share “the opinion of those who claim that 64 years old is two years of sacrificed life”. “No, work, even if I do not underestimate that it is not always easy, it is what allows you to build a future, for yourself, for your children. I mean to the beautiful souls who offer to have an ever more generous social model by working less, to these people who are building the disaster: what do they offer, apart from more debt and less sovereignty to finance it?
And if he says he is aware that the reform “remains unpopular”, Emmanuel Macron “assumes to have made it at the start of his mandate”.
