The former prime minister was nonchalantly at the top of all popularity barometers, but his voice did not set the tempo of the political debate. After having suggested, more allusively than insistently, a postponement of the retirement age to 67, he was content to approve the Borne-Dussopt reform without leading the battle in the front line.
For having gone through this and having led himself a pension reform under the criticism of the eternal inclined to deplore errors of method at the first headwind.