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Jean Castex: “Letting believe that we are going to leave at 60, and that we will increase pensions, and that we will finance dependency, is talking nonsense” The Prime Minister defended the pension reform outlined by Emmanuel Macron, on RTL, denouncing the competing project of Marine Le Pen. “Letting believe that we are going to leave at 60, and that we will increase pensions, and that we will finance dependency, is talking nonsense,” he said, referring to the measures proposed by the National Rally candidate. “We must first save our pension system: there is a deficit problem, if we do nothing, the risk is that pensions will decrease”, he insisted, while saying to himself ” in favor of consultation, dialogue”, after the Head of State, yesterday, greatly tempered his plan to postpone the legal age of departure to 65, saying he wanted to “consult, collectively [l’]improve “. Compared to the reform planned in the previous five-year term, which had aroused strong opposition before being suspended by the health crisis, “the President of the Republic has shown listening”, assured his Prime Minister, for whom “ we cannot say the President of the Republic does not listen to anything, and when he takes into account such and such a parameter, to say that he is backpedaling”. The previous reform project “was not clear”, recognized Mr. Castex, summoning the notions of pivotal age, point… “We are going to consult on a certain number of parameters”, he insisted, but whatever the case, “age will have to be pushed back”: “We live longer, so we have to contribute more. ” Can be negotiated, according to him, the questions of the “rhythm” of this postponement, “long careers, arduousness”. “There will be no haste, but at the same time a determination”, he concluded, so that “our retirees live well from their pensions. We have to adapt, without giving up on our primary objective”.