In the midst of new acts of violence repressed with tear gas in various French cities, the unions warned the government of the president Emmanuel Macron that they will maintain the pressure and their mobilizations as long as the pension reform is not withdrawn, even if the Constitutional Council validates it next week.
“Whatever happens, the mobilization will continue as long as the reform is not withdrawn,” stressed the new leader of the General Confederation of Labor (CGT, second power plant in the country), Sophie Binetat the beginning of the demonstration organized in Paris.
Binet explained that this eleventh national day of protest in less than three months, organized jointly by all the unions, “shows that the determination continues” against a reform that will delay the minimum retirement age from 62 to 64 years and that, his opinion, “is unfair and unnecessary.”
He insisted that it has “no economic justification”, which is the main argument used by the Government to defend it, nor “legitimacy”, in view of the popular opposition.
In a parallel vein, the general secretary of the French Democratic Confederation of Labor (CFDT, first union), laurent bergerstressed that “this movement continues to have the support of the population” and that “the rejection of this reform continues to be just as strong.”
Berger anticipated that his union will not question the legitimacy of the opinion of the Constitutional Council on whether the law that formalizes the pension reform, “whether we like it or not.”
But he added that “this does not mean that we stop saying what we think of this reform.”
The leader of the CFDT reaffirmed again that in France there is “a democratic crisis”, some words that this Wednesday provoked the reaction of Macronwho is on an official visit to China and who through his entourage wanted to show his discontent because, in his opinion, they imply that he did not have the legitimacy to carry out the reform.
In this new day of national mobilization there are convened about 250 demonstrations throughout the country, in which the police expect less participation than in the previous one, on Tuesday of last week, in which there were 740,000 people, according to the Ministry of the Interior. and more than two million, according to the CGT.
(With information from EFE)
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