France faces, this Tuesday, a new day of strikes and demonstrations against the reform of the pension system. It is the tenth demonstration in two months of strong, and sometimes violent, social protest that has brought millions of people to the streets.
The most violent clashes in history between protesters and security forces broke out on Thursday as tensions escalated into battles in the streets of Paris. A day of protest that mobilized between one million and three and a half million people.
To try to calm the protesters, Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne said on Sunday that she will receive parliamentary groups and political parties, also admitting possible meetings with unions. Already on Monday, instead of receiving King Carlos, President Emmanuel Macron met with the prime minister, other government ministers and senior lawmakers for crisis talks at the Élysée Palace.
“We need to continue to reach out to the unions. But he [Macron] He said that the violent protests had nothing to do with pensions and that the only thing they had in common was that they were directed at our institutions and security forces,” revealed a source present at the meeting, quoted by AFP.
Until now, many women could retire at age 62 thanks to a maternity allowance, which allowed them to make up for the years they had left for full retirement.
With the new law, even if they have the required 43 years of bonus, they will have to wait until age 64 to retire, so they lose the benefits of this bonus.
Source: TSF
