Retirement at 64 validated, the referendum of shared initiative rejected: it is more than a relief for the government;
it is a genuine political victory.
A Pyrrhic victory, some would say.
Firstly because if the legislative course of the law is now completed, the pension crisis is not over.
The disappointment of opponents provokes anger.
We can bet that we will no longer know the record processions of March, but we cannot exclude, and very far from it, the continuation of the mobilization by other means;
while remaining alert to the risk of violence.
Similarly, and contrary to Emmanuel Macron's wishes, there is little chance that union leaders will take the road to the Élysée, at least not before the symbolic day of May 1.
The legal debate itself is not closed since the Constitutional Council remains seized of a second proposal for RIP, undoubtedly better tied up than the first.
The political debate is not over either.
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