French Prime Minister François Bayrou on Sunday said he opposed the idea of bringing France’s legal retirement age back to 62, reports Politico.
Asked in an interview with France Inter whether he would consider returning the retirement age to the level it was before the pensions reform pushed by French President Emmanuel Macron, Bayrou said “no”.
“I don’t think that [debating on the age] is the only way forward,” he added in the interview.
In 2023, Macron passed a controversial pensions reform that raised the legal retirement age from 62 to 64 and was aimed at making France’s pensions system economically sustainable.
The reform has been strongly opposed by both left-wing and right-wing opposition groups.
In a bid to convince left-wing lawmakers not to bring down his government, Bayrou earlier this year promised to review the controversial reform, and didn’t rule out changing the retirement age.