ANALYSIS – The economic situation of the country is the least of the worries of the French.
Opponents and supporters of the pension reform agree: the executive managed like a handle in the face of a restive opinion. Contenting themselves with invoking the messy reports of the COR, the Pensions Orientation Council, which says everything and its opposite, Emmanuel Macron and Élisabeth Borne have proved incapable of embodying a sensitive and coherent vision of the world of work.
In the defense of the Head of State and the Prime Minister, the French seem, for their part, hermetic to any public speech. Isn’t their only horizon “the priority of purchasing power”, this new national currency lodged in the heads if not on the pediment of the town halls?
The frenzied individualism – “it’s my right”, we repeat from the top of his mobile phone – is combined with the disappearance of the right-left divide, which allowed the confrontation of alternative projects. Everyone sees noon on their doorstep, hiding behind their identity or corporate lobby, minority groups…
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