The unions are organizing, Tuesday, January 31, the second national day of mobilization against the postponement of the legal age, hoping to make the government text fail during its next examination in Parliament.
by Matthieu Goar, Mariama Darame, Bertrand Bissuel and Thibaud Métais
The Elysée, the National Assembly, the Street … The pension reform will be played at the heart of this funny cleaning of three, potentially eruptive and where the power relations evolve from day to day. Tuesday, January 31, the eight main employees’ unions are organizing a second national mobilization day against the postponement of the legal age of departure from 62 to 64 years.
After the success of Thursday, January 19, where the processions had taken place in peace (1.12 million demonstrators, according to the Ministry of the Interior; 2 million, according to the organizers), the executive will be able to , once again, measure the solidity of the union front. By having an eye on the crucial sectors (transport, national education, energy, etc.), but also on medium -sized cities, which had been strongly mobilized twelve days ago, a sign of an anchoring of the protest.
Officially, the Elysée and Matignon are not afraid of the street. The macronists were reassured to see that on January 19 had taken place in a “classic” way, in the words of an advisor, recalling the memory of the 2010 reform.
An example in all heads: on the bottom of the face-to-face, because it was already a question of posting the age of departure by two years; But also on the form, because the unions have chosen the same mode of protest with spaced days. At the time, they had brought together several million people on fourteen dates between March and November. The President of the Republic, Nicolas Sarkozy, and the Prime Minister, François Fillon, had not retreated.
remains a major difference: unlike their predecessors, Emmanuel Macron and Elisabeth Borne do not have the absolute majority in the National Assembly. They must bet on the solidity of the three macronist groups (Renaissance, Modem and Horizons) and on an increasingly fragile agreement with the leaders of the Les Républicains Party (LR).
a Words covered, some ministers fear that a long mobilization ends up scareing certain deputies, “within reach of slaps in their constituency”, according to a minister.
“bring anger in anger The hemicycle “
The showdown between the executive and the street of 2010 was therefore transformed, thirteen years later, into a three game, where the National Assembly will have a role to play. “The mobilization can make macronist deputies flank”, anticipates the deputy (La France Insoumise, LFI) of the Somme François Ruffin. “The reform suffers from the unpopularity of Macron and anti-macronism has always been very powerful, thinks the president of the LR group in the Assembly, Olivier Marleix. No one sees Macron the defender of the social pact.”
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