After the decree promoted by the president Emmanuel Macronon pension reform France dawned on a new day of strikes and protests throughout the country, with part of the public transport and the teaching of classes paralyzed. In addition to the fact that, up to now, 26 people were arrested in Paris on the sidelines of the demonstration, police sources told the local channel BFM TV.
During incidents with a group of black blocksa policeman was hit on the head by a cobblestone detached from the surface of a street and was transported to the emergency hospital. There were also riots in Le Havrein the north, where eight people were arrested for damaging street furniture and setting fire to garbage cans and public material.
Eight people were also arrested in Rouen, Normandywhere another 11 resulted wounds during the clashes. Among them, a woman who suffered the amputation of her thumb. Meanwhile, two police officers were also wounded by blows with stones in the head.
Meanwhile, the association of hoteliers and restaurateurs of France wrote a letter to the French prime minister, Elizabeth Borneto launch a cry of alarm over the consequences of the strikes and repeated demonstrations that seriously harm the sector, already severely punished by the pandemic and the inflation with rising costs of raw materials.
The letter mentions transportation strikes, trash that was not picked up for days in Paris, roadblocks as factors that keep away tourists. According to the president of the industry association, Pascal Moussetin restaurants, in Paris and in the big cities, the drop of the activity round the 25%.
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France: new day of strike and blockade of trains due to pension reform
Outraged by the decree’s approval, protesters blocked train stations, Paris’ Charles de Gaulle airport and refineries. The wave of violence and claims increased this Thursday after the president gave a 35-minute interview to the two main television networks in the country, TF1 and the public France 2about the project you are looking for delay the retirement age from 62 to 64 by 2030 and advance to 2027 the requirement to contribute 43 years, and not 42, to collect a full pension.
“This reform is necessary. It doesn’t make me happy. I would have preferred not to“, Macron pointed out. In addition, he assured that the pension reform must be applied “by the end of the year.”
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ON THE SCREEN. Emmanuel Macron gave interviews to the main television media in France yesterday, but failed to appease the discontent with his pension reform.
For the president, the social anger around the pension reform, which forces people to work two more years, is fueled by the benefits of large companies: “There is a certain cynicism when large companies have such exceptional benefits that they can even buy their own shares”.
Services were disrupted on high-speed and regional trains, the Paris metro, and public transportation systems in other major cities. From the Paris Orly airport they announced that 30% of the flights were cancelled.
Violence and social chaos, in the midst of a political crisis, have increased in recent days with the crystallization of the project promoted by Macron and his prime minister, Élisabeth Bornewho made the adoption of this measure effective by avoiding Parliament for fear of losing the vote in the National Assembly (lower house), where the Government lacks an absolute majority.
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A pension reform that eludes the parliamentary vote
The French prime minister aspires to raise the retirement age of 62 to 64 years already increase to 43 the years of listing necessary to receive a full pension, a measure that has generated a wave of protests in the country.
After weeks of mobilizations in the streets, the government this week used a constitutional provisionthrough the article 49.3 of the Constitution, which makes it possible to circumvent the parliamentary vote to approve the reform. And, after this controversial maneuver, deputies from opposition forces presented two motions of no confidence against the government and thousands of protesters took to the streets again in several cities of the country.
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On Monday, two opposition proposals sought block the official initiative will raise the retirement age 62 to 64 years from 2030 through a vote of no confidence Elisabeth Borne, First minister. However the Government managed to overcome this new barrier and, against all obstacles, go ahead with the reform.
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