The battle for pension reform is far from over. In recent weeks, the mobilization has weakened. But the unions assure that the determination of the French – some of whom can no longer afford repeated strike days – is intact: they want this bill withdrawn.
Indeed, according to a YouGov poll conducted for The HuffPost in early April, 71% of French people are against raising the legal retirement age to 64 years old. And according to this same survey, 64% of French people want Elisabeth Borne to go away.
After the failure of the meeting with the representatives of the main French unions, who slammed the door of Matignon last Wednesday after only an hour of exchanges, Elisabeth Borne will receive Marine Le Pen this Tuesday, April 11. A meeting minimized by the National Rally, which considers this interview as a “simple Republican courtesy visit”, confided a relative of Marine Le Pen to BFMTV.
As a reminder, the president of the RN group in the National Assembly defends a return to retirement at 60 for people who entered working life before the age of 20, then 62 (up to 42 years, therefore), gradually, for those who started working later.
Thursday, place for a new day of mobilization at the call of the inter-union. It is the twelfth since the beginning of the year. Demonstrations are planned throughout France. Blockages and major difficulties in transport are to be expected, despite Borne’s call “to respect a recovery period”.
Finally, Friday will be the most decisive day. The Constitutional Council must meet and decide on the pension reform. Several options are possible: total validation (unlikely if we refer to the opinion of several constitutional experts consulted by AFP), partial censorship (certain measures, such as the seniors index, could fall by the wayside) or total censorship (which the opponents of the text demand).