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We must avoid over-accidents.
This confidence from one of the main leaders of the majority illustrates the state of mind in the presidential camp.
Everyone knows that the battle for public opinion will never be won over pensions, that the reform will never be popular or even understood.
But the president's friends are betting that the hardest part is behind them and that by letting time do its work, the challenge will crumble on its own.
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LIVE – Disturbances, extent of the mobilization: follow the eleventh day of strikes and demonstrations against the pension reform
This new day of mobilization brings water to their mill.
Strike rates dwindled and the number of demonstrators fell again.
At the end of the abbreviated meeting of Matignon, Wednesday, Laurent Berger had however promised a "
relaunch
" of the movement.
If it does not collapse, it is now clearly on a downward slope.
The actors of the executive want to believe that the Sages of the rue de Montpensier will not go beyond a rejection of a few riders and will validate the heart of the law, namely retirement at 64 years old
Avoiding the “
over-accident
”, in the mouth of the leaders of the majority, is to hope that an unexpected event does not occur which, independently of the pension reform, would revive…
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