While negotiations with the government are deadlocked, the unions are not giving up.
The intersyndicale organizes this Thursday an eleventh day of mobilization against the pension reform, hoping for a new show of force, without falling into the pitfall of the violence which appeared over the parades.
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Yesterday Wednesday, the leaders of the eight main unions went to Matignon, the opportunity for them to ask Elisabeth Borne to "
withdraw
" her reform, and to affirm loud and clear that they refuse while waiting to "
turn the page
and “
to open, as proposed by the government, other consultation sequences
”.
The Prime Minister replied by saying that she did not envisage “
moving forward without the social partners
”.
For his part, Emmanuel Macron on an official visit to China, keeps an eye on the mood of the country and more particularly on that of Laurent Berger and Sophie Binet who has just succeeded Philippe Martinez.
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On March 28, the mobilization had stalled, with according to the Ministry of the Interior 740,000 demonstrators in France, "
more than two million
" according to the CGT.
The intelligence services foresee between 600,000 and 800,000 participants in some 370 actions listed at the national level.
Either a high figure which shows that the challenge does not seem to run out of steam.
“The trade unionists, exhausted by the last sequences, were able to rest and it will start again as in 14”, indicated to Figaro a police officer.
To try to contain the wave, Beauvau will still put the means.
According to information from Figaro, Gérald Darmanin will deploy a system made up of 11,500 police and gendarmes, including 4,200 in the capital.
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An inter-union is already planned for the evening at the headquarters of Force Ouvrière, during which the unions should announce a new day of mobilization before the decision of the Constitutional Council.
Laurent Berger, leader of the CFDT, hopes that the Elders will censure "
the whole of the law
" on April 14.
Failing this, a green light for the shared initiative referendum procedure (RIP) on pensions could also "
be an opportunity not to enact this law and to start again on a good basis
", he estimated.
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