Unlike Jacques Chirac in 2002 and Emmanuel Macron in 2017, Nicolas Sarkozy did not commit to reforming pensions in 2007.
Even more: he had promised not to touch the legal age of departure, set at 60 years since 1982. But the great financial crisis of 2008 went through this, forcing the government to find new sources of financing.
Éric Woerth, Minister of Labor and the Public Service, defended in 2010 a reform consisting essentially in postponing the legal age of departure from 60 to 62 years, and that of cancellation of the discount from 65 to 67 years.
The protest was long and massive, spread between spring and autumn, the processions exceeding the figure of 3 million demonstrators.
But the government of François Fillon did not give in and the reform, voted on October 27, was promulgated on November 10, 2010. At the head of the political fight against the reform, the PS had undertaken to repeal it;
but, elected eighteen months later, François Hollande did not return...
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