the unions call to remain mobilized, rallies everywhere in France

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After the rejection of motions of censure in the National Assembly – itself following the government’s recourse to Article 49.3 of the Constitution to have its reform adopted – the unions are still calling for mobilization against the pension reform. From Monday evening, tensions erupted in Paris and rallies took place across France.

The rejection of this transpartisan motion of censure “by a few votes, does not change anything! “for the CGT.” Nothing undermines the determination of workers, unemployed, young and retired to reject the pension reform that everyone, without exception, considers unjustified, unjust and brutal “, writes the second French union in a press release.

The CGT calls for amplify the mobilization », and to « participate massively in renewable strikes and demonstrations “Thursday, March 23” and after, if necessary “. The inter-union called last week for a new day of strikes and demonstrations, the ninth, this Thursday.

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CFDT worried about “anger” and “violence”

Interviewed on LCI on Monday evening, the secretary general of the CFDT, Laurent Berger, called on employees to “ mobilize Thursday, within the framework of the inter-union, in the same sense of responsibility » only since January to ask for the withdrawal of the reform.

He said he was worried about the anger » and « violence which could be expressed as a result of the adoption of a law which had no majority in the National Assembly “, while affirming that the unions would not be” accountants of what would happen that would not be under union orders “.

“ We are in the process of creating ourselves for ten billion euros (…) the biggest social crisis of the last ten years and the biggest political crisis of the last twenty or thirty years, it’s not worth it cut “, he warned.

Tensions in Paris, demonstrations in major cities

Trash fires, barricades, processions pacing the streets … Sporadic points of tension punctuated several arteries in the center of Paris on Monday evening, just after the adoption of the pension reform with the support of article 49.3.

Shortly before 10:30 p.m., 101 people were arrested in the capital during these incidents. Throughout the evening, in small groups, the demonstrators wandered in the center of the capital, overturning electric scooters and bicycles in their path, or setting fire to garbage cans. THEs security forces used tear gas on several occasions.

In Lyon, Saint-Etienne, Dijon, Bordeaux, Strasbourg or Brest, other gatherings took place. In Lille, in front of the prefecture, northerners whistled and booed when they learned of the rejection of the motion of censure. “ It’s going to be crazy “, they chanted. In Nantes, the demonstration, which began calmly around 18 hours, became tense in the middle of the evening. Bottles were thrown at the police, who responded with tear gas.

” A powerful protest day »

In another press release, the FSU for its part estimated that “ nothing is played », and called on the President of the Republic not to promulgate the law. She wished ” a powerful day of strikes and demonstrations on Thursday “.

The inter-union called last week for a new day of strikes and demonstrations, the ninth, Thursday, March 23.

For his part, the Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne, will seize “ the Constitutional Council directly “for an exam” as soon as possible of the text of the pension reform.

(With AFP)

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