The debate resurfaces
with each social movement: what right do the unions have to push back political power?
Or, to put it another way, are Philippe Martinez and Laurent Berger more legitimate than Emmanuel Macron, Elisabeth Borne and the parliamentary majority ready to vote for pension reform?
From an institutional point of view,
the question is quickly settled.
Our Constitution provides, from its article 3, that sovereignty belongs to the people, who exercise it through their representatives or by referendum.
It is nowhere written that mass demonstrations or even massive strikes can decide the fate of the country.
By re-electing Emmanuel Macron, the French knew that he was going to push back the retirement age, while Jean-Luc Mélenchon, who thwarts the political opposition to the reform, stood three times in the presidential election without never manage to qualify for the second round.
In short, there is no picture.
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Some will object that in France
sovereignty...
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