"
It's financially and psychologically traumatic
," says Adèle, a 23-year-old student who has just arrived in Paris, referring to the driving license exam.
“
And as soon as I talk to people about it, they know several people who have experienced the same thing
,” she continues, breathing.
Indeed, who has never heard someone, during a dinner or a family celebration, complain about a driving instructor, the price of driving hours or even difficulties in find a slot to finally pass it?
Because if more than a million French people try their luck each year, this exam, synonymous with the passage to adulthood, becomes for some a "
real ordeal
".
It is in this context that a new bill defended by Sacha Houlié of the Renaissance group was debated in the National Assembly on Monday 27 March.
The text aims to "
facilitate the passage and obtaining of the driving license examination
".
And for good reason.
'Financial trauma'
"
I didn't expect that at all...
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