More than 400 people have been arrested in the protests of the past three days in Paris. The French president will face two motions of censure this Monday.
The President of the French Government, Emmanuel Macron, faces one of his most complicated weeks since taking power next Monday. with his low popularitytomorrow Monday the opposition will present two motions of no confidence against him and on Thursday the unions called what will happen ninth day of strike to try and get him to go back on his plans to approve the pension reform which, among other things, has plans to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64 years.
The general secretary of the second trade union in France, Philippe Martinez (CGT) He has warned that they have no intention of giving up on the protests. “The president didn’t take us seriously when we warned him that dissatisfaction was high, that the rejection of the pension reform was very majority,” he said in an interview on the BFM channel.
Martinez explained that the grouping of eight trade union organizations who are against the pension reformrequested a meeting with Macron by letter on the 9th in a message warning of “an explosive situation” if the government did not withdraw its plan. But the French president no trade union leaders received and the government approved the pension reform by decree last Thursday, before the lack of majority in the National Assembly.
Since then, protests have taken place every day in French cities, with the balance exceeding 400 were arrested in Paris alone in the past 72 hours.
Tomorrow Monday will face two motions of no confidence presented by various parliamentary opposition groups, the approval of which will depend on the votes of a conservative party, that of the Republicans, which has 61 parliamentarians and is strongly divided.
The party leadership has given instructions not to file a second motion but it also asked its 61 MPs to support the unpopular reform during the March 16 vote, but this was not the case. Half of the Republican delegates announced they would not support it and the Macron Executive preferred not to risk voting for it and decided the constitutional article 49.3, already used several times by various governments and that makes it possible approve certain bills without a vote in the Assembly.
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Source: EITB
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