The Parisian procession had not shaken that Philippe Martinez had already qualified the day as historic.
Admittedly, there were people in the street on Tuesday, but this has been the case on several occasions since January, as well as in 2003 and especially in 2010, a year of imposing demonstrations.
In France, a pension reform that extends the legal working time is still a recipe against it.
Each time, we are therefore witnessing an identical spectacle, or almost.
The routine of a sepia-coloured country, which struggles to look the future in the eye and which invariably plays the same piece again.
With this question, which is also immutable: who, from the union front or from the executive power, is going to give in?
The advantage would rather go to the second.
A dramatic change is possible, but the reform should, one way or another, be adopted by the end of March.
Whichever of the two actors who…
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