The unions called for what could be the last day against the decree imposed by Macron in March. A mobilization of between 400,000 and 600,000 participants is expected.
France lives a new day of protests against the retirement reform decreed by the president Emmanuel Macron after a new attempt to repeal it and almost three months after its approval.
The unions are not giving up and, hoping that Parliament will repeal the law, called a 14th day of protests and demonstrations for this Tuesday, two days before a vote in the National Assembly (Lower House) to repeal the reform. However, they announced that it could be one of the last moves to curb the willingness of the French government.
A mobilization of between 400,000 and 600,000 participants is expected distributed in 250 different points, which will generate the deployment of 11,000 police and gendarmes. However, the number is seen as low if the 1.28 million protesters on March 7 (3.5 million, according to the CGT) are taken into account.
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What is the pension reform?
The French Prime Minister decreed the increase in 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 in March used a constitutional provisionthrough the article 49.3 of the Constitution, which allowed him 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.
The 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.
Source: Ambito
