Some, even among his relatives, wondered where Édouard Philippe had gone. The former prime minister was nonchalantly at the top of all popularity barometers, but his voice did not set the tempo of the political debate.
He had been watched over pensions; He had stayed behind. It was a surprise. After having suggested, more allusively than insistently, a postponement of the retirement age to 67, he was content to approve the Borne-Dussopt reform without leading the battle in the front line.
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In this long and rowdy sequence, he did not play the "Mr. More" of the reform. Perhaps not to add to the difficulties of the executive. For having gone through this and having led himself a pension reform under the criticism of the eternal inclined to deplore errors of method at the first headwind.
'Loyal but free'
Thus, Édouard Philippe did not bother the Macron-Borne couple, but he did not help them either. LR refusing against all odds to be more demanding...
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