The pension system mathematics is based on a certain age pyramid. If that pyramid changes - which it did and does - you need to change something. So the French

The pension system mathematics is based on a certain age pyramid. If that pyramid changes - which it did and does - you need to change something. So the French may go on the streets until forever, money in the pension system still cannot come out of the pen of the president. Now if they want to change the system itself including its mathematics, that's another story but I don't think it was even touched (and I'm not aware of any other alternatives some other place either)