Pensions : les propositions des candidats à la présidentielle 2027

The 2023 reform was suspended in 2025, with the legal retirement age frozen at 62 years and 9 months. The Court of Audit estimates that a return to 62 would cost €10.4 billion a year by 2035.

Marine Le Pen

Marine Le Pen wants to return to 62, with retirement at 60 for long careers; Jordan Bardella has raised an approach based on contribution years.

Return to the legal retirement age of 62 with 42 contribution years.
Retirement at 60 after 40 contribution years for those who started before age 20.
Reduce contributions for seniors who keep working.
Re-index pensions to inflation; announced cost of €9 billion a year.

Jean-Luc Mélenchon

Jean-Luc Mélenchon wants to repeal the 2023 reform and eventually return to retirement at 60.

Repeal the 2023 reform and first return to 62.
Restore retirement at 60 at full rate after 40 contribution years.
Raise pensions to the SMIC level for a full career.
Raise the old-age contribution by 0.25 point each year and levy contributions on dividends.

Édouard Philippe

Édouard Philippe wants to raise the legal age to 65 and add a funded pension tier.

Raise the legal age to 65 and the contribution period to 45 years in less than ten years.
Maintain departures between 60 and 64 for a third of workers (long careers, hardship).
Generalise mandatory collective funded pensions, neutral for labour costs.
Pay €500 from the State into a retirement savings plan from the first job.

Raphaël Glucksmann

Raphaël Glucksmann wants to repeal the 2023 reform without setting a precise legal age.

Repeal the Macron reform of 2023.
Modulate departures according to hardship and life expectancy, with some at 60.
Create a High Council for pension steering with a majority of social partners.
Increase the number of contributors (seniors, work immigration, youth entry).

David Lisnard

David Lisnard proposes a mixed system combining pay-as-you-go and mandatory collective funding.

Finance a third of pensions through mandatory collective funded schemes organised by sector.
Suspend indexation of pensions above €2,200.
Remove the 10% tax allowance on pensions.
Guarantee a basic pay-as-you-go pension from 65 and a minimum old-age income of €1,000.

Bruno Retailleau

Bruno Retailleau proposes a minimum age of 63, a full rate at 65 and a funded share.

Set a minimum departure age of 63, with a 7% reduction per year.
Set the full rate at 65, then index it to life expectancy.
Create funded pensions for young people covering 25 to 30% of pensions.
Save €40 billion over five years according to his estimate.

Gabriel Attal

Gabriel Attal wants to replace the age debate with a universal system based on contribution duration.

Create a universal points-based system with penalties and bonuses.
Make contribution length, rather than age, the main lever.
Build a funded pillar, including a €1,000 savings plan per child.
Freeze social benefits in 2028 without touching small pensions.

Éric Zemmour

During a BFMTV broadcast, he said he was in favour of retiring at 64, or even 65.

Says he favours retirement at 64, or even 65 (2026, according to BFMTV, excerpt relayed by Dailymotion).
Says he disagrees with Marine Le Pen on this point (2026, according to the site iSoloir2027).

Marine Tondelier

Les Écologistes want to reverse the move to 64 and aim for 60 for long and hard careers.

Repeal the move to 64 and return to a minimum age of 62.
Aim for 60 for long or hard careers.
Grant additional quarters for hardship.
Hold a work-and-pensions conference to balance the system by 2050.

Fabien Roussel

Fabien Roussel defends retirement at 60 and pensions at least equal to the SMIC.

No pension below the SMIC (August 2026).
Restore retirement at 60 at full rate (2022 programme).
Raise wages, minimum social benefits and pensions (2022 programme).

Nicolas Dupont-Aignan

Nicolas Dupont-Aignan has not set a legal retirement age and proposes targeted measures on pensions.

Give every newborn a retirement savings account of 10,000 euros.
Oppose any cut to survivor's pensions.
Restore the tax exemption on pension supplements for parents of three children.
Ease the validation of pension quarters for spouses of craftspeople, shopkeepers and farmers.

Dominique de Villepin

Dominique de Villepin does not set a legal retirement age and proposes a method: negotiation, then a referendum.

Social conference, citizens' convention, then a referendum within eighteen months if necessary.
Study a points-based pension system to break the deadlock.
Create mandatory retirement savings within the sovereign fund, with 5% interest guaranteed by the State.
Treat hardship and fragmented careers as starting points for renegotiation.

Nathalie Arthaud

Nathalie Arthaud condemns the rise in the retirement age without setting a target age.

Sharply increase pensions.
Index pensions to real price increases.
No specific retirement age in its published proposals.

Karim Bouamrane

Karim Bouamrane wants to differentiate by hardship: earlier retirement for some, up to 69 for others.

Take account of rising life expectancy to make the system sustainable.
Allow workers, farmers and employees exposed to hardship to retire much earlier.
Let other workers continue working until 67, 68 or 69.
Open a national debate on financing the welfare state.

François Hollande

He proposes a legal age of around 63 in 2028, without a return to 62.

Set the legal age at around 63 as of 1 January 2028.
Then adjust the contribution period to life expectancy, under the management of the social partners.
Limit pension indexation to 1% for five years.
Add a share of funded pensions controlled by the social partners.

Natacha Polony

No detailed position published at this stage.

Pensions : les propositions des candidats à la présidentielle 2027

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