Finally he withdrew the reform of the special pension plans

Growth in berne, mounted the unemployment, anger of the teachers-researchers and crisis in the overseas departments... Nicolas Sarkozy and François Fillon to emerge may be free, but the current cocktail is explosive enough to worry the majority. Because Governments are one day caught feet in the carpet of the challenge. And they were often bitten the dust.

Balladur and the Falloux law

Come to Matignon in March 1993, Edouard Balladur expected a few months to find themselves caught in the grip of discontent. In the fall, the will of the Minister of Education, François Bayrou, to revise the law Falloux raises an outcry from secular education, supported by the head of State, Francois Mitterrand. In January 1994, the Constitutional Council empty of its content the text, which brings together against him, in Paris, 1 million demonstrators. Two months later, Edouard Balladur made machine back on another of his projects: the CIP, the contract of employability, renamed "Young SMIC" by detractors.

Juppe and pensions

For Alain Juppe the difficulties come six months after his appointment by Jacques Chirac. They take the form of three weeks of paralysis (strikes SNCF and the RATP) and events, end of 1995, against the pension and health insurance reform. Finally, he withdrew the reform of the special pension plans. Is harsh: Alain Juppe will never really be to dispose of the formula that he himself launched during the conflict to display its determination: "right in his boots".

Jospin and the "mammoth".

The return of growth has not prevented Lionel Jospin to get bogged down in social conflicts, but it at least gave him a stay. Two and a half years after his appointment in 1997, the Government is confronted with the grumbling of the world teacher, very reassembled against Claude Allègre and promises of "scouring the mammoth". The Minister of Education, old friend of the Prime Minister is sacrificed. The image of Lionel Jospin, which continues also to postpone the reform of pensions, is wounded.

Raffarin and the heat wave

The protests did not prevent the first head of the Government of the second term of Jacques Chirac to complete a series of reforms, including the duration of the contribution relief retirement. On the other hand, it comes out very experienced controversy on its management of the heatwave of summer 2003, a year after his arrival at Matignon. The latter, coupled with the proliferation of conflicts arms of iron with researchers, snorts of Hospitallers and teachers, mobilization of intermittent workers and the unemployed , results in a failure resounding majority in the 2004 regional.

Villepin and CEP

Three letters were only put an end to the dream of Dominique de Villepin to come into the Elysee in 2007. The Premier had a personal battle of the battle of the contract first engagement for the less than 26 years. Accused of "widespread poverty" of youth, it surrendered in April 2006 after twelve weeks of conflict (from 1 to 3 millions of demonstrators in France March 28). Losing by that even most of the credit that he had known raise since his Matignon, eleven months earlier. Out of the crisis, the head of the Government beats records of unpopularity.