“We are going through a crisis. We have to weather this storm and we have to protect the weakest,” he told French broadcaster FR2 today. French President Emmanuel Macron.
The French president said that the cost of the energy crisis in France amounts to 85 billion euros, pointing out that the largest part of this cost has been borne by the state.
He promised that the increase in the price of electricity for households would not exceed 15%while at the same time opposing the indexation of wages, but in favor of providing emergency aid to workers.
He was also in favor of raising the retirement age for workers saying that “from the summer of 2023 we should raise the legal departure age by four months a year. This means that we will be 63 in 2025, 64 in 2028 and 65 in 2031.”
As for her political issues of France Emmanuel Macron attacked the parties of the left which, together with the extreme right, voted yesterday in the French National Assembly a motion of censure against the government.
“What makes me angry is the cynicism and disorder. They have proven that they are ready to go hand in hand with the extreme right while there is war in Europe,” said the French president.
Asked, however, if he is thinking of proceeding in 2023 with the dissolution of the National Assembly and the announcement of parliamentary elections, Emmanuel Macron did not want to open his papers, saying that in France the president has many tools to overcome the impasses, among which he mentioned the referendum.
Source: News Beast
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