Guillaume Tabard: "On pensions, credit recovered from the right"

In the Senate Chamber, this Wednesday, the exchange was courteous between Édouard Philippe and Gérard Larcher. The Prime Minister praised "the quality of our relationships with the Speaker of the Senate" . He joked about the telephone exchange that they had "eyes in the eyes" (sic) about the timetable for pension reform. But make no mistake: the showdown between the executive and the Senate majority will be uncompromising.

Certainly, Gérard Larcher is not Jean-Luc Mélenchon. The courteous senator of Yvelines is at the antipodes of the thunderous deputy of Bouches-du-Rhône as much in tone as in substance. Act II of the parliamentary debate on pensions will be no less trying for the head of government. Precisely because of the more subdued and less theatrical nature of the habits of the High Assembly. There, no obstruction but argumentation. There, no 49-3 or sleeve effects to retaliate to those who make the hemicycle an annex to the

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