The writer Mario Vargas Llosa, Thursday, February 9, immortalized as part of the ceremony marking his arrival at the French Academy. EMMANUEL DUNAND/AFP
CHRONICLE – The deputies who have examined the pension reform, and who must prepare the discussions with the Senate, would have every interest in meeting flesh and blood liberals, including Mario Vargas Llosa.
What will remain of the parliamentary debate on pension reform? The excesses of the Nupes, the half-skilled defense of the majority, the dissensions of the LRs. Long hours of controversy over the employment of seniors, the future of special schemes or the minimum pension at 1200 euros. And hollow a double absence. That of a fundamental reflection on the evolution of the place of work in society and strong liberal voices to carry it.
The latter are missing in a Hemicycle turned upside down by the thunderous arrival last spring of deputies France insoumise and RN. Especially since the Macronist majority, with its strong statist culture from the PS, does not really play the role of a liberal breeding ground. Not to mention the LR ranks, which, with a few exceptions like Jean-Louis Thiériot, Thatcher’s biographer, or Nicolas Forissier, have massively converted to a sovereignist and social line. Since Cannes, David Lisnard has tried to make a different voice heard by defending…
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