The 1,200,000 Liberals in the country who are protesting against the disappearance of their pension funds, the very likely drop in pensions for part of them and the state raid on their surpluses to bail out the future universal scheme and the special regimes maintained in fact must not count, it will be understood, on the empathy of the President of the Republic. Emmanuel Macron's campaign speech praising responsibility and autonomy in the spring of 2017 showed, to the test of power, the consistency of a soap bubble.
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The overhaul of the French pension system is the antithesis: "Abstract, state, universalizing, egalitarian like the Revolution" , it consists of "a nationalization of the system whose public power is trying to cut ties with civil society" (Jean-Louis Bourlanges in Le Figaro of February 6). Here are the independents summoned to consent to "a gigantic authoritarian reallocation operation of the revenues collected by
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