The President of the French Government, Emmanuel Macron, faces one of his most complicated weeks since he came to power as of this Monday. with his low popularitytomorrow Monday the opposition will present two motions of no confidence against him and on Thursday, the unions have called what will be the ninth day of strike to try to get him to backtrack on his plans approve the pension reform which, among other issues, plans to extend the retirement age from 62 to 64 years.

The general secretary of the second union in France, Philippe Martinez (CGT) He has warned that they have no intention of giving up the protests. “The president did not take us seriously when we alerted him that the discontent was deep, that the rejection of the pension reform was very majority,” he reflected in an interview on the BFM channel.

Martinez has explained that the grouping of eight trade union organizations who oppose the pension reformrequested by letter a meeting with Macron on the 9th, in a message in which he warned of “an explosive situation” if the Government did not withdraw its plan. But the French president did not receive union leaders and the Government approved the pension reform by decree last Thursday, before the lack of majority in the National Assembly.

Since then, protests have taken place every day in French cities, with a balance of more than 400 arrested in Paris alone in the last 72 hours.

Tomorrow Monday will face two motions of no confidence presented by various opposition parliamentary groups, whose approval will depend on the votes of a conservative party, that of The Republicans, which has 61 parliamentarians and is highly divided.

The party leadership has given instructions not to second motions but it also asked its 61 parliamentarians to support the unpopular reform in the vote on March 16, but this was not the case. Half of the Republican deputies announced that they would not support it and the Macron Executive preferred not to risk voting for it, deciding to activate the constitutional article 49.3, already used on several occasions by different governments and that allows pass certain bills without a vote in the Assembly.

Source: Eitb

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