While the 10th day of mobilization against the pension reform takes place this Tuesday, March 28, the executive advocates calm. Emmanuel Macron claims to reach out to the unions. Laurent Berger, leader of the CFDT, calls for ” a gesture of appeasement to find a way out “. But the debates are still at an impasse for the time being.
150 gatherings are planned throughout France this Tuesday, March 28, on the occasion of the 10th day of mobilization against the pension reform project, passed in force to the National Assembly after recourse to 49.3. An unprecedented security system is in place: the crowds will be supervised by 13,000 police and gendarmes, including 5,500 in the capital Paris.
Tuesday morning, a few hours before the parade, the prefect of police, Laurent Nuñez, said he expected a thousand black blocks in the street, which could lead to new clashes. Everyone has in mind the violence of the last weekend in Sainte-Solinein the Deux-Sèvres.
There is a disproportionate use of force that we had already denounced at the time of the Yellow Vests.
Jean-Claude Samouiller, President Amnesty International France
From a political point of view, the executive is trying to regain control. He proclaims his desire for appeasement, even if he remains inflexible. Sunday March 26, the Prime Minister said she was listening. Elisabeth Borne on Monday opened an extensive sequence of consultations spread over three weeks and invited the unions, if they so wish.
” The inter-union offers a gesture of appeasement »
Laurent Berger answered him at the microphone of France Inter. The secretary general of the CFDT does not close the door. But he keeps his course: he wishes, as a prerequisite, the setting ” outstanding » the extension of the retirement age to 64 years. ” Engage in a mediation process ” would be ” a strong gesture to poser” in his eyes.
“You have to enter into a mediation process.”
The leader of the CFDT Laurent Berger proposes to “pause” the 64-year-old measure, appoint one or more mediators and “take a month, a month and a half” to get out of the crisis on the pension reform. #le7930inter pic.twitter.com/lwAHGN9KFM
– France Inter (@franceinter) March 28, 2023
Laurent Berger also suggests “ take a month, a month and a half to ask one, two, three people to mediate “. And after these hoped-for steps forward from the government, the union leader plans to “ sit around the table, and we look at the question of work, pensions, on what there may or may not be a social compromise “.
” What the intersyndicale is proposing today is a gesture of appeasement “that he” must enter “, he insists. But time is running out, knowing that the decision of the Constitutional Council on this reform is expected within three weeks. In the meantime, many French people will be pounding the pavement once again.