In yesterday’s session, two opposition proposals they sought to block the official initiative that will raise the retirement age from 62 to 64 years from 2030 through a vote of no confidence in Élisabeth Borne, Prime Minister. However, the Government managed to overcome this new barrierand against all obstacles, Go ahead with the reform.
The local press considered that the victory of the Government of Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne in the motions voted yesterday in the lower house “tastes like defeat” actuallyand the left-wing newspaper Libération even assured that it “plunges the government into a political crisis”, while the right-wing newspaper Le Figaro wondered: “And now what can Emmanuel Macron do?”
The liberal president -accused of authoritarianism by his critics- exposes himself to a high political cost four years after the end of his second termin which he aspires to other reforms despite not having absolute control of Parliament.
Since mid-January, his government faces the unanimous rejection of the unions, of a large part of the opposition. According to previous surveys, two out of three French people oppose the pro-government proposal.
Waiting for the Constitutional Council to resolve the appeals filed by the opposition against the measure, which delays its promulgation, and the request for a popular consultation, The head of state maintained that we must focus on the future and asked his ministers “within a maximum period of two to three weeks” proposals for “a change of method and reform agenda” to “avoid finding yourself in a challenge to the legitimacy of a text”said the AFP agency.
Since the adoption by decree of the unpopular pension reform, “more than 1,200” undeclared demonstrations, “sometimes violent”, took place in France, Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin said today, citing 94 injured police officers.
Source: Ambito
