what the French want

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President Emmanuel Macron and the government of Edouard Philippe are on the eve of a difficult battle. According to our Ifop surveyJDD* Published Sunday, only a third of French (34%) trust them to reform pensions, against two thirds (66%) who oppose it. Without any real surprise, the supporters of La République en marche have more confidence in the executive to carry out this reform (90%) than the supporters of the National Gathering (10%), The insubordinate France (12%), Europe-Ecology The Greens ( 34%) or Republicans (42%).

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Asked about their "preferred orientation" in this issue, 41% of French people believe that a pension reform is not necessary. "Each time, with Balladur, Fillon, Woerth, they were sworn that this was the last chance to save the system, decrypts Frédéric Dabi, deputy director general of Ifop, so there is skepticism. have a lot of work to convince them. "

Two-thirds of French people support harmonization

According to this survey, 36% of French people consider that the contribution period of assets, the leverage traditionally used by policies in this area, must be extended. Among the other options proposed, 16% of French opt for an increase in contributions of assets and 7% for a decline in pensions of retirees, according to this survey. Only 2% of retirees are in favor of this last option.

More committed to the government, two thirds of French (66%) are in favor of a harmonization of the various schemes "in the name of the equality between the contributors", while 34% of the French want to keep different pension plans taking into account specificities of certain trades or teachers, according to this survey.

* Survey conducted by self-administered questionnaire online from August 29 to 30, 2019 among a sample of 1,010 people, representative of the French population aged 18 and over. The representativeness of the sample was ensured by the quota method (sex, age, occupation of the person questioned) after stratification by region and category of agglomeration. The margin of error for this survey is +/- 1.4 points for a result of 5 or 95%; +/- 1.8 points for a result of 10 or 90%; +/- 2.5 points for a result of 20 or 80%; +/- 2.8 points for a result of 30 or 70%; +/- 3 points for a result of 40 or 60%; +/- 3.1 points for a result of 50%.

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