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Pensions: what each candidate thinks

By Fadrique Garcia Font · Reviewed on 19/10/2026

The legal retirement age (back to 62 or up to 65), a funded pillar alongside pay-as-you-go pensions and raising pensions in line with inflation.

4 questions, 44 candidate positions and 3 complete disagreements (how they are assigned).

What each candidate proposes on this issue

A summary of their positions on the questions in this issue, based on their programmes, statements and the votes of their party’s group. Details and sources, question by question, below.

Attal

Agrees: “Part of pensions should be funded by invested savings (a funded pillar)”

Disagrees: “The legal retirement age should go back to 62 or lower”; “The legal retirement age should rise to 65”; “All pensions should rise at least in line with inflation”

Dupont-Aignan

Agrees: “The legal retirement age should go back to 62 or lower”; “Part of pensions should be funded by invested savings (a funded pillar)”; “All pensions should rise at least in line with inflation”

Disagrees: “The legal retirement age should rise to 65”

Glucksmann

Agrees: “The legal retirement age should go back to 62 or lower”; “All pensions should rise at least in line with inflation”

Disagrees: “The legal retirement age should rise to 65”; “Part of pensions should be funded by invested savings (a funded pillar)”

Le Pen

Agrees: “The legal retirement age should go back to 62 or lower”; “Part of pensions should be funded by invested savings (a funded pillar)”; “All pensions should rise at least in line with inflation”

Disagrees: “The legal retirement age should rise to 65”

Lisnard

Agrees: “The legal retirement age should rise to 65”; “Part of pensions should be funded by invested savings (a funded pillar)”

Disagrees: “The legal retirement age should go back to 62 or lower”; “All pensions should rise at least in line with inflation”

Mélenchon

Agrees: “The legal retirement age should go back to 62 or lower”; “All pensions should rise at least in line with inflation”

Disagrees: “The legal retirement age should rise to 65”; “Part of pensions should be funded by invested savings (a funded pillar)”

Philippe

Agrees: “The legal retirement age should rise to 65”; “Part of pensions should be funded by invested savings (a funded pillar)”

Disagrees: “The legal retirement age should go back to 62 or lower”; “All pensions should rise at least in line with inflation”

Retailleau

Agrees: “The legal retirement age should rise to 65”; “Part of pensions should be funded by invested savings (a funded pillar)”

Disagrees: “The legal retirement age should go back to 62 or lower”

In between: “All pensions should rise at least in line with inflation”

Roussel

Agrees: “The legal retirement age should go back to 62 or lower”; “All pensions should rise at least in line with inflation”

Disagrees: “The legal retirement age should rise to 65”; “Part of pensions should be funded by invested savings (a funded pillar)”

Tondelier

Agrees: “The legal retirement age should go back to 62 or lower”

Disagrees: “The legal retirement age should rise to 65”; “Part of pensions should be funded by invested savings (a funded pillar)”; “All pensions should rise at least in line with inflation”

Zemmour

Agrees: “The legal retirement age should rise to 65”; “Part of pensions should be funded by invested savings (a funded pillar)”

Disagrees: “The legal retirement age should go back to 62 or lower”

In between: “All pensions should rise at least in line with inflation”

The legal retirement age should go back to 62 or lower.

The 2023 reform raised the legal retirement age from 62 to 64. It is suspended until January 2028: the next president will decide what happens next.

Of the 11 candidates with a position on this question: 6 in favour, 0 in between and 5 against.

The legal retirement age should rise to 65.

The legal age was due to reach 64 under the 2023 reform, which is now suspended. Some propose going further to fund pensions.

Of the 11 candidates with a position on this question: 4 in favour, 0 in between and 7 against.

Part of pensions should be funded by invested savings (a funded pillar).

Today pensions are mainly pay-as-you-go: contributions from people in work pay current pensions. In a funded system, each person invests savings for their own retirement.

Of the 11 candidates with a position on this question: 7 in favour, 0 in between and 4 against.

All pensions should rise at least in line with inflation.

Basic pensions are in principle increased each year in line with inflation. To reduce the deficit, a freeze or a smaller rise is regularly proposed.

Of the 11 candidates with a position on this question: 5 in favour, 2 in between and 4 against.

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