In France, the legal age to obtain retirement is set at 62 years and to reach this magic number, the worker must prove a certain number of quarters, but…
What happens when a ruler dares to change the retirement age by making the worker work for two more years?
What feelings does the lengthening of your retirement period touch in the citizen?… This is a matter of common sense.
Emmanuel Macron has been a controversial president for France; He is young and knows that his leadership is being tested on his way to lead the European Union, but the different episodes he has faced, such as terrorist acts, the yellow vest movement and the wear and tear caused by the pandemic, have him in these moments with the lowest popularity of his tenure, 32%.
As if this were not enough, the crisis once again knocked on the door of the Élysée Palace and this time it weighs tons. Macron presented a reform to the pension law that orders that a worker must retire at 64 years of age, which has awakened the activism of unions, opposition politicians, ordinary citizens and, above all, that of many young people.
The category of this conflict tends to topple any presidency and “retire” forever those rulers who, without a political communication strategy, face these issues, tripping over this electoral dam and precipitating them to lose their hopes for the future.
On repeated occasions, we have referred in these pages to the concept *POLITICAL OFFICE* as a skill that rulers must develop and that, if necessary, help them solve these problems that, as in France, have already gone from marches to the excessive violence itself that is already equated to episodes of the Gallic past, opening a process of creativity to create new revolutionary icons.
Remember that in France each revolt develops a cause and an image that accompanies it. On this, Marc Bassets points out: ¨There was already a guillotine and some yellow vests¨… what next?¨
The moment is aggravated when young people, even when they see the moment of their pension as far away, perceive that this initiative threatens democracy because it challenges the force that 70% of citizen opposition has to it.
Are we facing a mismanagement of political crisis?
Undoubtedly. Politics is time and a ruler must always review his calendar to push some initiative and perhaps present it with the support and opinions of all social sectors, accepting that some may be more affected than others, but what is politics, if not creation of consensus.
Until now, popular pressure has not achieved its objectives; the protests have reached a million demonstrators across the country; Macron has not withdrawn the law from him and has not raised calling new legislative elections either.
An immediate effect of this discontent was reflected in the presidential agenda, since the royal visit of Carlos III that would be in Paris this week has been postponed. Some people think that the issue of pensions will soon be forgotten (without doing anything), but this position does not visualize the complete forest of Europe today that is going through a war that is lengthening in Ukraine.
We’ll meet later.