Leafing through the great book of the history of pensions can no doubt explain a government's apprehension when putting its reform on the table.
More than any other, the subject takes France to the guts, hysterizes the political debate, causes extraordinary social conflicts.
For thirty years, each president has undergone the test of fire, with more or less success.
After the burning episode of the "yellow vests", under the first five-year term of Emmanuel Macron, we can therefore conceive that Elisabeth Borne takes a thousand precautions to advance her pawns.
Especially in the absence of an absolute majority in the Assembly, which makes the exercise even more perilous.
So many concessions for zero political gain
However, whatever the challenge of this reform and the political circumstances of the moment, it is difficult to follow the government's strategy.
So why let everything go before the fight?
From concession to concession - sorry, from "improvements" to "enrichments" - the text has already undergone a life-size spin-drying even before its arrival...
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