Nicolas Sarkozy marks and on purpose accentuates divisions

MEP, Vice-Chairman of the Modem, the sociologist and Economist Robert Rochefort was, until 2009, the Director of the Crédoc, the Research Centre for the study and observation of living conditions.

What do you attribute the hardening of the conflict on pensions

This reform is not accepted, but at the same time the mobilisation is not word in order to remove purely and simply. It is almost the first time that the view has the feeling that you really a pension reform and accepts the idea that he will have to work longer. The problem is that it has again confused the ability to make this reform with a pure Act of authoritarianism. This authoritarianism of power does not trust the sincere and constructive dialogue between partners and, above all, he wants to go further than the point of possible balance to show its strength. The resemblance is undeniable with PBS. After passing the CNE, Dominique de Villepin sought to the PBS and it broke. Nicolas Sarkozy could pass the report to 62 years but, by adding the pillar of 67 years, he started back to the wall by crystallizing all objections.

Is the France impossible to reform

I am convinced otherwise, but it's complicated. Whenever there is a meaningful reform, all of the accumulated anxiety of society to wake up. Violence appears in manifestations is the fruit of this malaise which is installed over time. In this case, Nicolas Sarkozy pays many accumulated holds, some of his, others who are past. The sense of injustice, which is very large, is installed before him, even if it has failed to mitigate - he even festered, often quite rightly.

It would be more a matter of method...

For many. The head of State has a too politician behaviour, too tactician. To the radicalization of the conflict, one can feel the attempt by a sort of effect "chienlit" in which he could appeal to the inmost depths of society that she asked him to restore order. Nicolas Sarkozy marks and on purpose accentuates divisions. But I am satisfied UI ' is the sociologist who speaks - can no longer reform French society by playing on divisions or by force. It is finished in Western societies and a France injured by the aborted reforms of the past even more. The failed reforms accumulate as successive sedimentations which remain the trace, including for the younger generations.

Is the social climate degraded over the past ten years

What strikes me, is that it is before an accumulation of despair and a lack of hope. It is particularly among young people. There are those who break Windows, from the neighbourhoods of relegation and who don't believe in nothing. There are young 150,000 leaving each year of the school system without adequate training, situation known for so long that it changes anything. And there are others who see the youth unemployment level unmatched with the crisis. But all have one thing in common: they are with a very chaotic future or no future. Like the seniors pension reform, young people need that it creates jobs and that it gives meaning to the work. I am surprised that no one speaks.