Before the royal visit, the unions warn. “We will continue to mobilize (against the reform) and this visit will be in our sights”, warned Mathieu Obry (General Confederation of Labour) and Yvan Fort (Force Ouvrière) in the daily. South West this week.
“It is almost certain that the king will not be able to take the tram” in Bordeaux as he planned, also anticipated Pascal Mesgueni, delegate of the French Confederation of Christian Workers (CFTC) at the transport authority Transports Bordeaux Métropole (TBM) . Charles III is making his first state visit abroad as sovereign from March 26 to 29. In addition to a dinner organized at the Palace of Versailles, he will meditate at the Arc de Triomphe in Paris before addressing the Senate, a first for a British monarch. He will also go to Bordeaux where he must travel by tram.
“A good old general strike” to welcome Charles III
Emmanuel Macron “is certainly more comfortable with the monarchs than with the elected representatives of the people to whom he denies the right to vote on his pension reform”, tackled Ian Brossat, spokesman for the PCF, after the adoption at the forceps of this text via the constitutional weapon of 49.3. Socialist Senator Rémi Cardon, for his part, laconically observed that “there will be no walkabout” of Charles III and Emmanuel Macron.
On the far left, the spokesperson for the New Anti-Capitalist Party (NPA) Olivier Besancenot summed up, hilarious, on franceinfo: Charles III, “we are going to welcome him with a good old general strike! “If the prefect of police of Paris Laurent Nunez said he was” very calm “on BFMTV before the trip, Buckingham Palace however keeps a worried eye on the demonstrations, reports the Daily Mail which evokes additional logistical precautions.