Eighth day of strike and massive demonstrations in France against the pension reform

Eighth day of strike and massive demonstrations in France against the pension reform, whose legislative process reaches its final stretch.

The final version of the project

The mobilizations coincide with the joint committee meeting of seven deputies and seven senators to agree on the final version of the bill, focused on the increase in the minimum retirement age from 62 to 64 years.

Uncertainty

This Thursday it is expected to be approved without problems in the Senate. But in the National Assembly, President Emmanuel Macron has it more difficult, since quite a few parliamentarians from the Republican partyan ally of the Government on this issue, do not guarantee their support.

The executive does not rule out having to resort to an article of the Constitution that allows him to avoid voting in Parliament in exchange for allowing the opposition to present motions of no confidence.

Paris turned into a dump

Among the followers of the strikes, teachers, employees of public transport, refineries, ports and garbage collection. Paris accumulates in its streets more than seven thousand tons of waste. The Minister of the Interior has warned the mayoress that if she does not fix the situation, he will act himself. Anne Hidalgo is against this reform.

At the Orly airport in the capital, twenty percent of the flights have been canceled due to the air traffic controllers’ strike.

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