THE RISKED STRATEGY OF EMMANUEL MACRON TO "CROSS THE WALL OF DECEMBER 5"

To do this he beats the reminder of his troops .

Ten days before the strikes of the SNCF and the RATP, the Prime Minister Edouard Philippe, indefatigable marathoner, receives on two days the unions and the employers for a final lap of track. Bis repetita. Édouard Philippe had already received them in September. For the same reason. In the same format.

Sunday, he summoned the entire government to Matignon, to detail the official line and avoid polyphony at the top. On Tuesday evening, the head of government is to host a meeting of parliamentarians LREM and MoDem, along with the Minister of Health, Agnès Buzyn, and High Commissioner Jean-Paul Delevoye.

In addition the party En Marche is summoned to reactivate its members as it had done at the beginning of the crisis of "yellow vests". The Republic in March asks its leaders, its activists on the ground throughout France to give him their impressions.

A communication to extol the reform

The idea is to convince the public that the merger of the 42 existing pension plans into a single (point-based and career-based) system is "fair". High Commissioner Jean-Paul Delevoye acknowledged that there was a lot to do. And to add: "There are a number of untruths. Our fight is to be able to retricft these false truths upside down and to show how this project brings solidarity, generosity and solidity ".

Stigmatize the privileged special diets

In this war to prevent the public opinion to support the strikers as during the great strikes of 1995, the Head of State had, too, to go to the forefront qualifying the claims of employees benefiting from the special regimes demands "From another era". He exploits the only idea that puts almost all French people in agreement: it is not normal for railwaymen to retire before everyone else. By targeting these plans, which Richard Ferrand refers to as whiners, the government also wants to isolate them and avoid strikes by proxy or opportunity. Richard Ferrand, exhausted "a mobilization to maintain inequalities". "Attention to the image they can give, we could have the impression that they do a little corporatism," added, for its part, Elizabeth Borne.

But it is not certain that this bold strategy on the part of the government will succeed in defusing the mistrust of pension reform.

A risky strategy

Each passing day reinforces the mobilization of opponents of the pension reform. The call for the "unlimited strike" at the RATP and the "strike extendable" at the SNCF is coupled with a day of interprofessional strike decided by the CGT, Force Ouvrière, the FSU, Solidaires and four youth organizations. The left parties invite themselves to the processions, the extreme right too. According to a poll for La Tribune, Orange and RTL, six out of ten French people approve of the December 5th strike.

"The President of the Republic, who should be the president of all the French, tries to divide the French," thundered on Sunday, the Secretary General of the CGT, Philippe Martinez.

If Emmanuel Macron seems to want nothing to give on the reform project, the French still do not know the exact terms of the reform and are tired.

Because the vagueness and the hesitations have ended by making everyone doubt the relevance of this universal system.