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Pension reform: "The battle of opinion, the real challenge for Borne and Macron"

1/10/2023, 7:20:12 PM


COUNTERPOINT – The Prime Minister and the President must deal with the general morale of the country, which will also decide the outcome of the major project of this five-year term.

Long consultations failed to disarm the opposition of the unions, of all the unions, to the slightest postponement of the legal retirement age;

but who believed in it?

A few discussions made it possible to lay the foundations of an agreement with Les Républicains, strangely vaccinated against audacity;

but who doubted it?

Based on this double observation, it is certain that the reform presented by Élisabeth Borne will be contested in the street;

it is probable that it will be voted on in the Hemicycle.

But it is another battle, even more decisive, that the executive engages: that of opinion.

An opinion that neither the unions nor the political parties control or are capable of guiding.

An opinion whose hostility to retirement at 64 is the majority, according to the polls, but of which no one is able to say whether it is resigned or rebound, depressed or explosive, tired or mobilized.

However, it is also the general morale of the country that will decide the outcome of the major project of…

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