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The Constitutional Council’s turn to decide on the retirement law. Its president sticks to legal ground, but politics is never far away…
By Jerome Cordelier
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IEyes converge on him, but he is silent. In his office in the rue de Montpensier, adjacent to the Comédie-Française and with a view of the Palais Royal, Laurent Fabius is about to take the stage. While staying in the shadows. The one who remains for history the youngest Prime Minister of the Ve République, appointed to Matignon in 1984 at the age of 38 by François Mitterrand, who was a heavyweight in the various socialist governments, president of the National Assembly, first secretary of the PS, deputy, mayor, no longer does politics.
At least that’s what he says to all the journalists who come to try to extricate a word, a formula, a comment from him. What always makes his interlocutors smile… When one is political, one remains so.
Since March 8, 2016, Laurent F…