With a smile on his lips, Olivier Dussopt energetically descends the main staircase of the Senate.
It's around 7 p.m. Thursday night.
The Minister of Labor, in charge of pension reform, has just experienced his first hours of debate in the Upper House.
His appeased face contrasts with the cold and closed one he still displayed just over a week ago, at the end of the discussions in the National Assembly.
Diminished and voiceless due to laryngitis, the former socialist had left the spans of the Palais Bourbon exhausted.
The worst is over.
He knows that the political situation here is much more favorable to the government.
The senatorial majority, on the right and in the center, very largely approves the postponement of the legal retirement age to 64 years,
that she has also been voting for four years in an amendment to the Social Security bill.
Above all, even when they are firmly opposed to a reform, the parliamentarians of the Luxembourg Palace have a reputation for debating...
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