In France, for more than two and a half months, opponents have been beating the pavement, in particular against the postponement of the legal retirement age. The government seems to be playing on a breathlessness of the movement but the unions called last night for a new day of action next week, on the eve of the verdict of the Constitutional Council on the text of the reform.
In France, the eleventh day of mobilization against the pension reform mobilized a little less than usual. This Thursday, April 6, they were 570,000 to march across the country, against 740,000 during the last day of action on March 28, according to the authorities. The unions estimated at almost 2 million “National attendance, a figure slightly down according to them, when the CGT union had then counted” more than 2 million of protesters.
In Paris, in the afternoon, through the windows of the Assembly, a thick cloud of tear gas reminds deputies that the street is still rumbling against pension reform. The union procession passes not far from there.
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The rebellious Clementine Autain still believes in it, at the microphone of Pierrick Bonno political service. ” We cannot know exactly how all this will continue. We are awaiting the result of the Constitutional Council. We saw that with the 49-3, there had been a revival. In any case, what is certain is that the President of the Republic cannot win in paradise »
But in the presidential camp, we see the end of the tunnel with the decision of the Elders next week. Deputy Pierre-Alexandre Anglade is already in the after social movement. ” This week, the Council of Ministers studied the military programming law, the Minister of the Economy presented his green industry plan, the Citizens’ Convention on the end of life delivered its conclusions. Once the Constitutional Council has delivered its opinion, the country will indeed have to be able to move forward. »
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If the deputy Republicans (LR) Hubert Brigand is opposed to this pension reform, he also believes that the movement will run out of steam. “ At one point, we are on the eleventh day for people who demonstrate, and who end up losing part of their salary. Inevitably, I understand that the demonstrators at some point become discouraged and that we finally arrive at a deterioration of the situation. »
Twelfth day of action on April 13
A deterioration of the situation which will have consequences. According to an LR executive, even if Emmanuel Macron manages to enact his reform, the challenge will reappear one day or another. Doubtless tenfold. Thursday evening, the inter-union called for a 12th day of strikes and demonstrations against the pension reform Thursday, April 13, on the eve of the long-awaited decision of the Constitutional Council.
The bosses of VSEs opposed to the pension reform
More than six out of ten leaders of very small businesses (TPE) take a dim view of the government’s pension reform and are wary of its economic actions, in a context of high pessimism, according to a Fiducial-Ifop poll published Thursday.
Carried out among a thousand owners of companies with less than twenty employees, this survey was unveiled at the end of an eleventh day of mobilization against the pension reform, the day after a meeting which turned short between the Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne and the inter-union.
This reform is not only contested in the street: 62% of VSE managers are not in favor of it, including 43% “not at all”, while 36% say they are in favor of it, including 10% who support it strongly. “These scores are particularly close to the measurement carried out on all French people in mid-March”, underlines the Fiducial-Ifop survey (68% not in favor and 32% in favor).
They consider that the ideal average retirement age is 62.4 years, while the government has planned to raise it from 62 to 64 years, a measure that crystallizes anger. The departure is expected earlier still in the sectors with greater hardship (a little over 61 years), but beyond 64 years in that of business services.
(AFP)