For the eighth time since January, opponents of the highly contested pension reform wanted by Emmanuel Macron are mobilizing this Wednesday in France. At the same time, parliamentarians are working to find a compromise on this text.
This day can be decisive for the vote of the deputies. After the record demonstrations of March 7, and a day of mobilization less followed on Saturday, the inter-union therefore wants with this eighth day of action to weigh one last time. Because the majority is not acquired in the government.
The government ” more than ever » looking for a majority
The government is looking for more than ever to obtain the support of a natural majority for its pension reform, government spokesman Olivier Véran said on Wednesday, adding that a possible recourse to 49.3 to adopt the text had not been mentioned in the Council of Ministers.
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Seven deputies and seven senators are also meeting behind closed doors to seek a compromise on the pension reform project, and in particular on the thorny issue of long careers. An agreement in the Joint Joint Committee (CMP) is essential for a final vote on Thursday in the National Assembly.
Anne Hidalgo singled out in the garbage collectors’ strike
As since January 19, hundreds of thousands of French people are expected in the streets to express their rejection of this reform, the flagship measure of which, the lowering of the legal retirement age from 62 to 64, crystallizes the anger. Apart from the demonstrations, the renewable strikes continue in several key sectors: transport, energy, waste collection…
On the issue of garbage cans, government spokesman Olivier Véran rejected Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo’s ” political responsibility to find a way out of the garbage collectors’ strike, accusing him of ” impose to Parisians the accumulation of garbage cans in the streets of the capital.
(With AFP)