The Senate, dominated by the right, adopted Wednesday evening the famous article 7 of the text of the government, which raises from 62 to 64 years the legal age of retirement.
The determination of the unions remains intact, despite the major step taken by the pension reform in the Senate. On Wednesday evening, the upper house of Parliament, dominated by the right, adopted the famous article 7, which raises the legal age of retirement from 62 to 64 years. “It doesn’t change anything, it doesn’t change anything in the determination and the mobilizations“, reacted Philippe Martinez this Thursday morning on France 2.
The general secretary of the CGT underlines, however, that the sixth day of action on Tuesday “was the strongest in terms of mobilization in the streets“, with 1.28 million demonstrators in France according to the police (3.5 million according to the CGT). “The determination is still there. When there is such an unjust reform, the employees, the citizens are mobilized more than ever“, added the one who will hand over to the head of the CGT central at the end of the month.
Two other days of mobilization are already planned by the unions: one on Saturday and the other next week, the day of the joint joint commission between the deputies and senators, who must agree on a joint text on pension reform. It should take place on Wednesday March 15, so logically the action day should fall on Wednesday. “But if the joint joint commission is on the 16th (March), we will do the 15th and 16th“Said Philippe Martinez.
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The government satisfied
For its part, the government welcomes the vote on Article 7 in the Senate, like Stanislas Guerini, Minister of Transformation and Public Service, this Thursday morning on Public Senate: “We are satisfied that things are progressing, that we can also talk about the substance of the text.However, he notes a gap between the parties with “a desire to move forward and get to the bottom of the debates» for the right and «temptations to slow down the debate on the benches to the left of the hemicycle».
For Christophe Béchu, Minister for Ecological Transition, “tonight’s vote marks a further step“. At the microphone of Sud Radio this Wednesday morning, he concedes that “this pension reform is not there to please“but that the text has evolved since”prior consultations with the unions».