Jacques Serais, edited by Julien Moreau
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09:14, March 07, 2023
This Tuesday, March 7, opponents of the pension reform will parade in the street for the sixth time since the start of the movement. Between 1.1 and 1.4 million demonstrators are expected throughout France. For many sectors, the strike could be renewed. What does the executive intend to do if the strikes and blockages are over time?
Between 1.1 and 1.4 million demonstrators are expected everywhere in France during this sixth day of demonstration against the pension reform. The executive has absolutely no intention of backing down. A single watchword reigns in the ranks of Macronists, we must turn our backs. “The real battle begins”, analyzes a minister at the microphone of Europe 1. “That of duration”, he adds.
Do not deviate from the trajectory
For the government, the ambition will be not to deviate from the trajectory during this week which promises to be particularly eventful. “It is an issue of responsibility”, reports a minister. “We must hold on”, insists a heavyweight of the majority for whom “the withdrawal of the text or a decline in the age of 64 is not possible” as this would call into question Emmanuel Macron’s second five-year term.
The executive is therefore impatiently awaiting the end of the debates in Parliament. The examination of the text in the Senate will end on Sunday evening before the passage in a joint committee, composed of seven deputies and seven senators. Finally, the text will return to the hemicycle of the National Assembly. In a week, there can therefore be a final vote or a 49.3 activated by Elisabeth Borne. “It can go quickly” analyzes an adviser at the microphone of Europe 1. At the risk that the executive’s eagerness to move on will further ignite social discontent.