Le Pen maintains pledge to lower retirement age back to 62

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The far-right presidential candidate confirmed on Thursday she would maintain one of the last social proposals on her platform: lowering the retirement age to 62 or even 60, a point of contention within her party.

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In 2024 and 2025, French Open spectators had the privilege of witnessing the retirements of Rafael Nadal and Richard Gasquet. Perhaps inspired by the spirit of Roland-Garros, it was at this same venue that Marine Le Pen, presidential candidate of the far-right Rassemblement National (RN) party, officially announced on Thursday, August 27, her decision to set the retirement age at 62, or even 60, as business leaders looked on with concern. "Let's take responsibility for our choices as a society. I take responsibility for mine," she told her political opponents during a debate at the Rencontre des Entrepreneurs de France, the annual conference of France's main employer federation, the MEDEF.

Pension reform, which has been a source of discord within the far-right party in recent years and remains one of Le Pen's last social proposals, was openly challenged by RN president Jordan Bardella before the summer, when his own presidential candidacy seemed likely. The reassertion of Le Pen's primacy, despite her conviction on appeal for the misuse of public funds, resulted in maintaining the reform she proposed in the last presidential election, in 2022, along with some additional measures yet to be clarified.

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