The dawn of a year marked by social tensions? The government presents this Tuesday, December 10 its choices for the future of the pension system, the postponement of the legal retirement age announcing strong opposition in the streets and in Parliament, despite the measures of "social justice" promised. Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne will unveil at 5:30 p.m. this reform wanted by Emmanuel Macron to "preserve" the pay-as-you-go pension system. According to the executive, there is "urgency" to straighten out a regime that could post a deficit of around twenty billion euros in 2030. To this end, the government could announce the raising of the legal retirement age to 64, instead of the current 62, gradually from autumn 2023. This measure would be coupled with an acceleration in the extension of the contribution period, which would increase to 43 years before the 2035 horizon set by the Touraine reform of 2014. Pensions: Will Macron unleash the storm? This postponement to 64 rather than 65 could earn the government the support of the LR right, which has been defending this option for years in the Senate. The other oppositions and the unions are up in arms against any increase in the legal age, believing that it would mainly affect the most modest, who started working early and already have their quarters at 62 years old. The rest is hardly in doubt: gathered at the end of the afternoon at the Bourse du travail in Paris, the number one of the eight major unions (CFDT, CGT, FO, CFE-CGC, CFTC, Unsa, Solidaires, FSU ) should call workers to a first day of demonstrations and strikes on January 19 or 24. "If Emmanuel Macron wants to make it his mother of reforms [...], for us it will be the mother of battles", warns the boss of Force Factory Girl, Frederic Souillot.