Pensions: Is Emmanuel Macron winning his bet?

Jacques Serais 06:54, March 29, 2023

Fewer demonstrators, less damage... The 10th day of mobilization against the pension reform brought together 740,000 demonstrators throughout France according to the Ministry of the Interior and more than 2 million according to the CGT. Figures down from last Thursday.

Strikers here and there who return to work, like the garbage collectors in Paris. Enough to restore confidence to Emmanuel Macron. The President has been betting from the beginning on the strategy of the rotting of the social movement, on the exhaustion of the unions.

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However, "this is not the end of the tunnel," temporizes a heavyweight of the majority. Because if Elisabeth Borne invited the inter-union to a meeting at Matignon on Monday or Tuesday, the executive absolutely does not want to pause the reform, as demanded by the boss of the CFDT Laurent Berger. A new day of mobilization has already been announced for next Thursday.

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Constitutional Council decision scheduled for mid-April

In the meantime, no one, neither at the Élysée nor at Matignon seems to have found "the right idea" according to an adviser, the solution to get out of the crisis. "We are doing the round back, quite simply," says a government strategist, impatient for the Constitutional Council to make its decision.

The Constitutional Council's decision is scheduled for mid-April. Two to three weeks of waiting and uncertainty for macronia while the head of state will fly in the coming days to China and then to the Netherlands. International meetings that come at the right time to extricate themselves from the crisis, at least physically.