Let's face it: the real purpose of retirement at age 64 is to reassure the financial markets, more specifically France's creditors.
And from left to right, everyone agrees, but each in their own way.
With his media capital, the LFI deputy for the Somme, François Ruffin continues to hammer him to be indignant, pointing the finger at the hated financial capitalism and its superprofits.
For his part, Alain Minc, the consultant to the powerful who prides himself on having had the ear of all the presidents of the Republic for around forty years, sees this as obvious.
With a public debt of 3000 billion euros - more than half held abroad - France must imperatively control its accounts, of which pensions constitute an important part, he spreads, mockingly, in the radios.
To ignore it is to step out of the "circle of reason", according to his favorite expression.
Emmanuel Macron would also be ready to admit that the ultimate goal...
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