The controversial pension reform of Emmanuel Macron keep going. The French Senate gave the green light late this Saturday to the controversial project promoted by the French president, despite the massive demonstrations that have occurred in recent weeks against this measure, which raises the retirement age.
Legislators have given the go-ahead to the bill with 195 votes in favor and 112 against, ‘no’ that correspond mainly to the socialist, communist and ecological groups. The Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne, has defended that the measure, finally adopted “after 100 hours of debate”, is “a decisive step to carry out a reform that ensures the future” of the pensions of the French.
For his part, the Delegate Minister of Public Accounts, Gabriel Attal, stressed that the reform has as its “sole objective” to be able to “continue paying soon 20 million pensions each month”. “It is for the French who have no other patrimony than their work that we are working to save this system”, he assured.
protests against the reform
Just a few hours before your approval, a million people demonstrated throughout France against the reform of the pension system, according to the conveners, who specified that 300,000 of them would have concentrated only on the streets of Paris, although the Police of the French capital estimate 48,000 attendees in the city, while the Ministry of the Interior has confirmed 368,000 demonstrators in 251 rallies and demonstrations throughout the country.
It has been the day with the least participation since the beginning of the mobilizations, seven weeks ago, far from the 963,000 of February 11 or record of 1.28 million from March 7, according to police figures. “The days are not compared, they add up,” argued the general secretary of the National Union of Autonomous Trade Unions (UNSA), Laurent Escure.
The French government’s plan poses raise the official retirement age from 62 to 64extend the years of contribution necessary to receive the maximum pension and eliminate the specific regimes that exist today for certain sectors.
Source: Lasexta
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