From the first processions, on January 19, to this Thursday, April 13, 12th day of mobilization, Le Monde tells us the story of these three months of struggle, “ between feeling of injustice and anger against 49.3 »
” What will remain of these three months?wonders The world. Although unable to triumph, at the end of what some would like to see only as a first round, the trade union organizations seem to be revived in the role of spokesperson for the workers. »
Nevertheless ” despite new calls for mobilization for this Thursday, few still believe that victory will be decided in the streets. Most place their hope in the arbitration of the Constitutional Council, expected tomorrow Friday. Alain Rei, secretary of the CFDT of Bouches-du-Rhône, intends to mobilize on the RIP (the referendum of shared initiative) launched by the left, if the Council authorizes it: ‘The activism that we have been able to develop during the movement, we will use it for that’, he says. »
For its part, “ sociologist Karel Yon believes that social mobilization was not enough, a political relay is needed. But, by their endurance and their cohesion, the unions nevertheless allowed this recourse to exist, he points out. Emmanuel Macron wanted to go fast. He will at least have come up against the ability of the trade unions to make the movement last. »
Towards a partial censorship of the text?
So what will the 9 Sages decide tomorrow?
“ Partial censorship – most likely -, total censorship, validation, not to mention the range of interpretation reservations… Whatever the scenario, the Council will not escape controversies that could be written in advance, believes the Catholic daily. Everyone will adopt the perspective that suits them: ‘The judges have said the law’. ‘No, they played politics’. The dissatisfied will be tempted to question the impartiality of the Council, to insist on its composition (‘Two former Prime Ministers!’), on the calculations, resentments or annealed hatreds which could have weighed in the decision. That’s the game. But it’s pointless. (…) The Constitutional Council is not there to please either the governments or the demonstrators, still falls The cross. It renders legal decisions in a context that is always highly political. The continuation of the quinquennium is certainly played out partly on the side of the rue de Montpensier. But we must beware of any overinterpretation or trial of intent. Given the state of the public debate, this is really not the time to shoot the referee. »
For his part, Emmanuel Macron “ ticked only one box on his social diary this week, point The Latest News from Alsace: that of tomorrow Friday when the Constitutional Council will render its decision on the conformity of this law which it can validate without reservation or censor in whole or in part. It is on this last option, in fact, the most probable, that the executive is counting. It would allow him, specifies the Alsatian daily, to promulgate his reform once it has been purged of constitutionally problematic elements, the senior index in particular. A scenario which would have the immense interest of adorning this text with the legitimacy of which the forced debates in Parliament and the use of 49.3 have deprived it. »
The very discreet management…
On his side, Release is interested in the attitude of employers on this pension reform… “ Big bosses make themselves small “, title Release. Indeed, prudence and discretion…” The malaise is palpable among business leaders, points out the newspaper, divided between very moderate support for the executive and real opposition to the text. »
Release precise : ” in large companies, which have their own internal negotiations to conduct, the CFDT, the CGT and others are obviously interlocutors to spare. And in small or very small companies, where unions do not exist, the tense context on wages due to inflation was probably considered the number one concern… On arrival, concludes Libé is at best a form of support without participation that the bosses invented during this pension crisis. A strategy that further confirms the political isolation of the Head of State. »
To Jupiter!
Finally ” Europe sets out to attack Jupiter and its icy moons » : this is the great title of the Figaro. It is indeed this Thursday at 2:15 p.m., Paris time, that the European probe Juice will leave from Kourou in Guyana ” for Jupiter, its frozen moons and their gigantic oceans of liquid water hidden under a thick layer of ice. This is THE great European exploration mission of the next decade ” point Le Figaro. “ After an eight-year, two-billion-kilometer journey through the Solar System, Juice will orbit Jupiter in such a way as to perform close flybys of its major moons. Objective in particular: to detect possible traces of life…