After the massive rallies on May 1, which brought together hundreds of thousands of people across the country, the unions made a new call that will accompany the presentation of a bill in the National Assembly (parliament) to abolish the retirement rule, which had been vehemently contested for months by the social majority.
In a statement titled “Remaining united, pluralistic and determined to withdraw and social progress”, the 13 signatory organizations called for “further initiatives, notably a new day of joint action, strikes and demonstrations on June 6, which will allow all employees to make themselves heard before parliamentarians.”
On June 8, the National Assembly will debate a bill supported by various groups in the assembly and aimed at reversing the controversial reform, which delays the legal retirement age from 62 to 64.
Parliamentary sessions in the National Assembly also resumed today after a fifteen-day hiatus, and the leader of the main opposition group (France Insomissa) Mathilde Banno made it clear that “there will be no return to normalcy” in the Chamber nor in the country as long as the pension reform is maintained.
He affirmed that from his group “we will not turn the page,” and added that as many legal initiatives as possible would be presented to repeal the law, “a national association is completely separate from the country and nothing will be misplaced in it.”
For French President Bannot, Emmanuel Macron is the “ridiculous president,” and he considered him “the laughing stock of the democratic world abroad,” and reminded him that “you cannot endlessly silence a people.”
Largely approved by the Constitutional Council on April 14, the law will go into effect in September, but a new appeal to the country’s highest administrative body must be resolved on Wednesday, in which it called for a referendum to overturn the reform.
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