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NARRATIVE. Cornered by 49.3 and the result of the cross-partisan censure motion, the head of state finds himself, less than a year after his re-election, bogged down. Retired at 45?
By Mathilde Siraud
Under pressure. Emmanuel Macron at the Franco-British summit, at the Élysée, on March 10. The international stature of the head of state has been damaged by the pension crisis.
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IAurent Berger is mad with rage. A macronist parliamentarian has just warned the boss of the CFDT that Emmanuel Macron has decided to draw 49.3 on pensions. “But you are crazy! » the union leader texts him back, stunned. A disastrous epilogue for a reform badly started from the start… “The most terrible thing is that we are blamed more for having lied than for having wanted to pass this reform”, we are sorry for the government. One day we will have to dwell on the errors and failures that have, for at least three months, punctuated the progress of this cursed law, against a background of popular hostility and union mobilization: the strange strategy (to release as many concessions even before the parliamentary debate), the inappropriate choice of words (a financial project comes…
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