Rarely has a legal decision concealed such political significance.
This Friday, the verdict of nine people gathered in a closed Republican session at the Palais-Royal will be more decisive for pension reform than the protest of hundreds of thousands, even a few million people in the streets of the country.
And it is undoubtedly the first time that a decision of the Constitutional Council will lead the news channels to set themselves on a special day, watching for the sentence of the Elders with as much feverishness as the white smoke escaping from the Sistine Chapel to let it be known that the cardinals have elected a new pope.
Or when the legal meets the media.
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This focusing of attention could, however, lead to an error of interpretation.
The college chaired by Laurent Fabius will certainly decide the fate of the law carried by Olivier Dussopt, but it will not make the law.
We do not ask him to say whether it is good, justified or unfair to postpone the retirement age…
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