Bis repeated.
After this Thursday, April 6, the inter-union wants to make a show of force on Thursday, April 13.
A date that owes nothing to chance.
It is the next day that the Constitutional Council must deliver its verdict on the pension reform.
All French people are therefore once again called upon to go on strike and pound the pavement during this twelfth day of mobilization.
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This new gamble of the inter-union is perhaps the riskiest since the start of the dispute.
Because several threats hang over this day of action.
The first is the risk of shortness of breath.
This outcome is fairly inevitable for a movement that began nearly three months ago.
The last few days have thus drawn a downward trend in participation.
Returning from vacation
The second is the arrival of the Easter school holidays which begin this weekend of April 8 and 9.
An always delicate period for the unions.
In February, the latter had preferred not to organize demonstrations for several weeks to avoid showing emaciated processions.
Finally, the lack of a clear objective on this new day could also discourage some demonstrators.
Admittedly, the goal is always to obtain a step back from the government on the postponement of the legal age, but only the Constitutional Council can still make things happen.
However, the latter renders its verdict according to the law and not public opinion, unlike the National Assembly or the Senate.
Despite everything, the unions say “
not being able to stop the movement overnight
”, as François Hommeril of the CFE-CGC points out, at the risk of making it last too long?