liveLIVE. Pension reform: “This is not the last day of mobilization”, warns Sophie Binet

10:15 a.m. – Gérald Darmanin prohibits demonstrations around the Constitutional Council

While the entrance to the institution was blocked this morning by trash cans, Gérald Darmanin decided to ban demonstrations around the Constitutional Council according to information from BFMTV. An important decision as the procession of the demonstration for the 12th day of mobilization against the pension reform will pass nearby.

09:36 – “This is not the last day of mobilization”, warns Sophie Binet

“This is not the last day of mobilization, we will see each other again a lot,” said CGT general secretary Sophie Binet on Thursday morning from the incinerator in Ivry-sur-Seine, near Paris, again blocked by demonstrators hostile to the pension reform. This 12th day of demonstrations and strikes at the call of the inter-union is not the last, “unless Macron withdraws” the text, assured the new leader of the CGT.

Sophie Binet came to support the garbage collectors of the City of Paris, again on strike like those of the waste treatment plant. Trades “impossible to practice after 60 years”, she added. The President of the Republic “is completely disconnected from the needs of the population. He even managed to explain to us that he was going to bring together the trade union organizations to talk to us about something else. So it’s because he has nothing understood,” she continued.

09:31 – Lockdowns in progress in several cities in the West

Blockades were underway around several cities in the West, in particular in Caen, Brest and Rennes, where the bus depot was also blocked, AFP learned from concordant sources. “We will have to see what it will give tomorrow”, after the decision of the Constitutional Council, “if it will restart more beautiful”, considers in Rennes with AFP Philippe Simon, 56, union representative Unsa. “Otherwise, we will have to go to Paris” to demonstrate, he believes.

Also in Rennes, filter dams have been established on certain exits from the ring road. Similarly, slowdowns were recorded on the RN 157, which gives access to Rennes after the end of the motorway coming from Paris. Around Caen, diversions have been put in place following blockages.

In Brest, the Pen-ar-C’hleuz roundabout, the main outlet of the RN12, coming from Rennes, to enter the city, is also blocked, causing traffic jams. Filter dams were also reported near Angers and Chartres and the railway tracks were invaded at Quimper station around 8:30 a.m.

09:21 – The intersyndicale will only meet Macron “if it is to talk about the withdrawal”

Present alongside the strikers in front of the incinerator of Ivry-sur-Seine, Sophie Binet, secretary general of the CGT, affirmed that the inter-union will only meet Macron “if it is to talk about the withdrawal, otherwise we have something else to do”. She thus responded to the President of the Republic’s proposal to dialogue with the unions after the decisions taken by the Constitutional Council on Friday. She also stressed: “As long as this reform is not withdrawn, the mobilization will continue one way or another.”

09:10 – The inter-union will meet Thursday evening

On the eve of the decision of the Constitutional Council, the inter-union must meet Thursday evening, according to concordant sources, to prepare its reaction to the decisions of the Constitutional Council.

09:08 – The entrance to the Feyzin refinery has been blocked

Thursday morning, the entrance to the Feyzin refinery, near Lyon, was blocked for two hours by a hundred union activists, before the intervention of the police who dispersed them without major incident, AFP told AFP. Prefecture.

09:04 – The Aubervilliers waste collection site blocked

The Aubervilliers dump truck depot was blocked this morning by demonstrators against the pension reform. Sign of the “act II” of the garbage collectors scheduled for this Thursday in Paris. Waste collection trucks cannot leave the site, blocked by strikers. Some say at the microphone of LCI want to “transform the streets into landfill”.

08:51 – The President of the Senate believes that it is necessary to find “the ways of dialogue”

The President of the Senate estimates this Thursday on BFMTV that there is “a problem of method on social dialogue”. Gérard Larcher said that “Emmanuel Macron’s way of governing is questioned by this crisis. As it had been by the Yellow Vests”. “Confidence today is not there”, he lamented, before adding: “We must find the ways of dialogue.” He asks that discussions resume with the social partners. However, he stressed that there was a political crisis, but “no democratic crisis” or “institutional crisis: our institutions are working”. For this 12th day of mobilization, he called for “restraint” and “respect”.

08:31 – Alexis Corbière warns of a radicalization of the protest

Guest of Public Senate, Alexis Corbière warned the government. “If the government says will make you seeif the Constitutional Council does not let go, if there is neither RIP nor censorship, the authoritarian temptation will rise in this country”, he explained. The LFI deputy also added: “That we do not s I’m not surprised, when you enrage people, when you humiliate them, to create reactions.”

08:18 – The Constitutional Council “particularly protected”, according to Laurent Nuñez

While the procession of the Parisian demonstration will pass near the Constitutional Council on Thursday afternoon, the Paris police chief, Laurent Nuñez, explained on RMC that the institution would be “particularly protected”. He also claimed that a “good” thousand of “ultra-radical and ultra-left activists” have “been present from the start” in the protests against the pension reform.

08:10 – The entrance to the Constitutional Council blocked by trash cans

While the Elders must decide on Friday on the pension reform, piles of trash are blocking the entrance to the Constitutional Council on Thursday.