The French Prime Minister supports the suspension of Macron’s retirement reform in a government -rescue offer

French Prime Minister Sebastien Director told parliament that he supported the suspension of conflicting pension reforms in 2023, before decisive votes of distrust later this week.

The changes that increased the retirement age from 62 to 64 were regarded as reforms in signature in the presidency of Emanuel Macron.

“This fall, I will suggest parliament to stop the retirement reform in 2023 until the presidential election (2027),” said Dulknu applauding from left -wing parties.

Lecornu was re -appointed as Prime Minister last week just four days after resigning and needed the support of socialist MPs in parliament if his government survives.

Opposition parties in the final right and final left are called voices of confidence, known as “voting” in Dephers, for Thursday morning, and require parliamentary elections.

The Socialists have said they will be ready to support the new government, but only if it promises a complete suspension of changes to Macron’s pension.

“If he does not explicitly say the words” direct and complete suspension of pension reform “, it will be confusion,” said French television of socialist MP Laurent Bauml.

“He holds his fate in his hands. He knows what he did if he did not want to be the Prime Minister, who resigned every week.”

The reforms were finally completed through parliament in March 2023, less than a year after Macron was voted for a second presidential term.

There were months of political debate, strikes and street protests, and in the end the bill had to go without voting in parliament, using a constitutional mechanism known as 49: 3.

Last week, Large said it was something that many French mentioned as a “wound to democracy.”

On Tuesday, he made it clear that the suspension of pension reform would cost € 400 million (£ 350 million) in 2026 and another EUR 1.8 billion (1.57 billion British pounds) in 2027. This will have to be compensated by other savings, “Lecornu said.

Lecornu has been the third Prime Minister of France in the last year, but even if he survives, he must receive a budget through parliament, which reduces the budget deficit of 5.4% of economic production (GDP) this year.

The public debt of France earlier this year is € 3.4TN, or almost 114% of GDP, the third highest in the euro area after Greece and Italy.

Lecornu is one of Macron’s most loyal allies, so that his decision to return to such a contested reform shows how keen the president is to avoid more shocks.

Philip Agion, who was awarded the Nobel Economy Award on Monday in 2025, said earlier that she also supported the suspension of pension reform, as it would still come to a smaller price than the instability, which would follow another collapse of the government.