Since the French government would not have the necessary votes in the National Assembly, the French government approved the controversial pension reform by decree, under Article 49.3 of the Constitution. The decision has sparked riots and protests across the country.
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Outrage in Iparralde and the rest of the French state after the approval by decree of the pension reform by the executive of Emmenuel Macron. Thousands of people have taken to the streets and signed up incidents in different cities, with protests, barricades and arson – they set fire to containers, cars and rubbish that had accumulated in corners due to the sweepers’ strike. Dozens of people have been arrested only in Paris, The police have arrested at least 217 people. Incidents have been reported in Nantes, where more than 3,000 people have taken to the streets, as well as in Marseille and Rennes. There have also been mass protests in Lyon, Bordeaux, Toulouse and other cities.
in Iparralde, the protest was peaceful in Baionabut the anger is evident. The unions have suggested that major mobilizations will take place in the coming days.
The pension reform decision has plunged President Macron and his government into a deep deluge great political storm. The controversial reform was approved by decree on Thursday afternoon, under the protection of the Article 49.3 of the Constitution, given the impossibility of getting enough votes in favor in the National Assembly. The prime minister, Elizabeth Borne, announced that the measure was adopted “out of responsibility”, as “one cannot risk gambling with the future of pensions”. Borne had to speak between yelling and yelling from the opposition parliamentarians, while the left deputies chanted de Marseillaise and called for his resignation.
The decision led to the immediate announcement of motions of no confidence by opposition parties and groups.
“Borne cannot continue,” far-right leader Marine Le Pen has said openly, stressing that “the vast majority of French people” have spoken out against the government project. Likewise, he has advanced that his group will support any motion of censure, even if it comes from the left. “The important thing is not who puts forward the motion, the important thing is that the government falls,” he stressed.
The left also has a vote of no confidence ready, says communist leader Fabien Roussel. He has issued a call to continue the mobilizations in the streets and reiterated his initiative to call for a referendum. For this it is necessary to present four million signatures.
The motion of censure has also been announced by the parliamentary group Libertés, indépendants, outre-mer et territorials (LIOT). The group brings together twenty deputies, centrists, from overseas territories, regionalists and Corsican nationalists.
Jean-Luc Mélenchon, leader of the leftist France Unsubmissive, points out that the reform “lacks any parliamentary legitimacy” and has no support “neither in the street nor among the majority of the French”.
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Source: EITB
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