Faced with the demonstrations that have multiplied from the north to the south of the country since last Thursday, Emmanuel Macron reacted for the first time and reaffirmed his will to carry out the pension reform, which could be definitively adopted this Monday, March 20, if the two motions of no confidence against the government of Elisabeth Borne are rejected by the deputies.
The Eliseu published a statement stating that “the more than 170 hours of debate that resulted in the vote on a text, with the commitment of the Senate and the National Assembly, the President of the Republic expressed to the President of the Senate and the Assembly their will that the pension reform can reach the end of its democratic path with respect for all”.
A declaration that faces a number of demonstrations that does not stop increasing. Philippe Martinez, general secretary of the CGT trade union, points out that the vast majority of the demonstrations take place “with determination and calm”.
“We do not understand why the government, and especially the President of the Republic, do not take our warnings seriously. That’s all. We are here to warn, to say that the discontent is deep, that the rejection of this law is forceful”, defends the trade unionist.
Philippe Martinez blames the president for the increase in the revolt and social protests. “The President of the Republic changes his arguments many times. Two months ago it was an economic problem, he said that we were at risk of a financial crisis. At first it was a matter of social justice reform. People can no longer not realize anything. What everyone understood very well is that this reform is unfair, brutal and authoritarian. For our part, we fulfill our role, that of alerting ”, he concluded.
The two motions of censure presented by the Liot and NUPES group and by the deputies of the far-right National Union party will be debated and voted on this Monday starting at 4:00 p.m.
For the bill to be blocked, which leads to the fall of the government, the motion of no confidence must be voted by an absolute majority in parliament, with 287 votes. In two months, Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne managed to approve twelve motions of no confidence, specifically to validate the state budget for 2023.
More than a hundred motions of censure have been presented since 1958: only one was approved, in 1962, against the election of the President of the Republic by universal suffrage, overthrowing the Pompidou government.
Source: TSF
