Guillaume Tabard: "Pension reform, after this first round, the battle of determination"

The ballot boxes against the street, the street against the ballot boxes.

Classic confrontation each time it is a question of passing a difficult or unpopular reform.

From Spain, Emmanuel Macron recalled the legitimacy he had to reform pensions insofar as this promise had been

and clearly heard - it was even probably the only one - during his campaign, there are only nine months.

While this Thursday's demonstrations attracted undeniably large crowds, even more than the organizers had hoped, the Head of State wanted to recall that his determination would not be indexed to the size of the processions.

In private, Macron evokes the precedents of 1995 and 2010, two examples of pension reform that had not been announced during the presidential campaign that preceded it.

The outcome, however, had not been the same.

Chirac had given up touching special diets when Sarkozy had succeeded in postponing the legal age of departure…

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