The France takes to the streets after the government’s decision to resort to article 49 paragraph 3 to approve the highly contested law pension reform which effectively raises the retirement age from 62 to 64 years old. To raise the bar of tension – already high – the move (surprise according to many) by President Emmanuel Macron who “overridden” the parliament.
Pensions, Macron rips
Yesterday, the National Assembly should have voted for the decisive go-ahead for the measure. But the French president, fearing he didn’t have the numbers, decided to put the matter of trust on the reform, approving the provision without the vote of the deputies.
“We can’t play with the future of the country”: thus the French president, speaking in the council of ministers, would have justified the decision to resort to the article 49,3 of the constitution
With the government’s choice to ask the question of trust, the pension reform, therefore, has become law. Provided that the motions of censure that will be presentedand within 24 hours and discussed on Monday, do not collect the majority of votes.
And he risks everything: what can happen
If the motion of censure were majority, in fact, the government of Elisabeth Borne would be beaten and Macron would have to appoint a new prime minister and a new executive. The law on which the law was placed would also fall trust.
Meanwhile, the group leader of the Rassemblement National at the National Assembly in Paris, Marine Le Pen denounces “a democratic coup de main”, after Macron’s decision to adopt the pension reform. Speaking to journalists gathered at the National Assembly, he asked for the premier’s resignation Elisabeth Borne.
The protest explodes
In the same vein, Lawrence Berger, leader of France’s main trade union CFDT, announces “new mobilizations” by trade unions. Demonstration underway near the National Assembly in Paris. The pension reform has no “parliamentary legitimacy”: says the leader of France InsoumiseJean-Luc Melenchon, interviewed by BFM-TV, during its inspection of the square, alongside the demonstrators protesting against the decision in Paris
