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IndependentJUL 2023
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The Spin
Right narrative
French citizens have to embrace the pension reforms. With ever increasing life expectancies and an aging population, the cost to the state's coffers has become unsustainable. France needs to consider its economic and social future, and raise the pension age like all other European countries have done.
Left narrative
Despite those that say the numbers are unsustainable, the deficit for future years is not as dramatic as Macron and his supporters make it out to be. There are other ways of raising the funds necessary outside of increasing the pension age, including by reversing the tax cuts for businesses that Macron's government has itself implemented.
Metaculus Prediction
There's a 13% chance that Emmanuel Macron will cease to be President of France before 2027, according to the Metaculus prediction community.
