ISTANBUL France’s reappointed prime minister on Tuesday proposed suspending the country’s contested 2023 pension reform until the next presidential election, pledging no increase in the legal retirement age before January 2028 and a pause in the required contribution period. “The Assembly wanted the government to suspend the reform while awaiting a debate, a solution, a vote, I am doing so,” Sebastien Lecornu told lawmakers in a policy address. He added that the contribution period would remain