Emmanuel Macron's weakness

British politics has recently experienced its fair proportion of dramas, but our next continental neighbor is shaken by its own upheavals. Emmanuel Macron has fought to change the French state pension and to increase the age from which it can be obtained from 62 to 64 - still significantly below that of the United Kingdom and many other European countries.

According to a number of protests and mass strikes, the measure came to the French National Assembly, which the upper house passed but has no majority in the undergrowth. In view of a possible defeat, President Macron has annuled the coordination and is now proposing to force the reform with the help of his executive decision.

He says that he was re -elected with the promise last April to make the change, but because his party had lost the parliamentary majority, he was unable to do so.

politicians across Europe will be jealous of the ability of a French president to overlap over a problematic legislative. He is not the first to exercise his power in accordance with Article 49.3 of the Constitution, but to do so if he meets resistance from so many pages, is a challenge for French democracy, an uncomfortable position for the favorite of European Progressive.

his government is now facing a request for no confidence that, if he is lost, could trigger a parliamentary election that Mr. Macron could possibly put in an even weaker position if his centrally alliance loses more seats. The President claims that France cannot afford future pension obligations without reforms, but opinion polls show that it is rejected by 70 percent of the voters. Less than a year after his re -election, he fights for his credibility and authority. It is one that he seems to lose.