201 senators voted in favor, while 115 voted against and 29 abstained.
The French Senate, thanks to the right-wing majority in the upper house, voted in the early hours of Thursday on delay of the minimum retirement age from 62 to 64 years, the main point of the pension reform of President Emmanuel Macron.
After midnight, 201 senators spoke in favor of which is already the well-known article 7 of the bill that increases by two years the age at which the French will have to wait to assert their rights to retirement, while 115 spoke against and 29 abstained.
The vote came at the end of a fifteen-hour parliamentary scuffle over that article, with the left having submitted hundreds of amendments to obstruct the debate and the right resorting to an exceptional device that allows them to be bypassed.
Labor Minister Olivier Dussopthe was satisfied but prudent, aware that this partial progress for his project was based on support from the right that would be essential for him to move forward in the conciliation phase between the two parliamentary chambers.
Dussopt considered that it was “a vote of responsibility by the Senate, which has opted to follow the Government”, and He expressed his wish that all the articles could be discussed and adopted between now and the deadline for processing in the Senate.midnight on Sunday.
But the big winner of the night was the head of the parliamentary group of the classic right-wing party Los Republicanos, Bruno Retailleau, whose senators were the fundamental support of article 7: 127 spoke in favor and only 2 against.
protests
Beyond this vote and the parliamentary process, which could end next weekthe great stumbling block for Macron are the massive protests in the street organized by all the unions gathered in a union quite unheard of in France.
Last Tuesday, the sixth day of mobilizations was the largest since the beginning of the movement in January due to the number of protesters: 1.28 million, according to the Ministry of the Interior, 3.5 million, according to the CGT.
It is true that the plants did not paralyze the country, as they had announced, but They have called two new days of action, Saturday 11 and Wednesday 15 March and they asked that Macron receive them urgently, to whom they are demanding the withdrawal of his pension reform project.
Meanwhile, strikes continue in certain sectors, particularly in public transport and energy. In transport, both today and tomorrow, 20% of flights at Charles de Gaulle will be canceled and 30% at Orly, the second airport in Paris, as well as at Beauvais, Bordeaux, Lille, Lyon, Nantes, Marseille, Montpellier, Nice and Toulouse.
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