The majority has succeeded in turning a legal headache into a political problem. Pulling out the weapon of 49.3 was the certainty of an automatic adoption of the reform, but it was also the reactivation of anger against the government.

There, by letting the text go to the vote, there is the same legal assurance - the law on pensions will not be called into question - but also the same certainty of seeing the awakening of political and perhaps social protest. In both cases, too, a risk...