The French Prime Minister attempt to calm the protesters by negotiating with the opposition.
According to the German publication “De Sight”, the French have been demonstrating against the government’s pension reform plan for more than two weeks. Now the Prime Minister of this country has announced the negotiation with the opposition leaders.
French Prime Minister Elisabeth Bourne announced talks with the opposition over massive protests against pension reforms. In the first week of April, he will meet with prominent opposition politicians and representatives of the ruling parties and communities to calm the country, Bourne said.
The French official explained that he is ready to meet with all social partners. According to him, negotiations with representatives of trade unions and employers’ associations can be held in the second week of April.
The pension reform foresees a gradual increase of the retirement age from 62 years to 64 years in France. The French government has resorted to a much-criticized constitutional provision to approve these reforms without a final parliamentary vote.
These reforms have caused widespread protests and sometimes serious riots in France for weeks. More than a million people took to the streets on Thursday against the government’s plans, according to the French interior ministry, and unions spoke of as many as 3.5 million demonstrators. Tuesday is another day for nationwide protests.
The French Senate has already approved these reforms. French President Emmanuel Macron is still waiting for the Constitutional Council to decide before implementing the plan. He said in a television interview about the protests that these protests are the democratic right of the citizens. At the same time, he said that he cannot tolerate violence from the demonstrators. He did not comment on police brutality.
While the French Constitutional Council is still required to give its final opinion on the plan to reform the pension system, Macron recently told “TF1” and “France2” that the changes should be implemented by the end of the year.
French protesters are angry at the country’s president’s decision to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64 without a vote in the National Assembly.
Macron’s retirement plan was presented several times in the National Assembly in the past month but did not get enough votes, and recently the French President asked the Prime Minister to use special powers to implement this controversial plan, according to which the government can plan without the approval of the Parliament. make itself law.
In an article, Pasir Noye Presse newspaper addressed the issue of how France can get out of this situation.
This article continues: Peaceful protests against French pension reforms have turned into violent riots, and now the question is whether the issue is really only about the contribution limit and retirement age.
France is angry. The peaceful protests at the beginning of the year against the government’s pension reforms have now turned into a wildfire. Neighboring Germany is also now debating police brutality against demonstrators, disregard for democracy and the resignation of the government. French MP Aurore Berge tweeted about death threats against her and her four-month-old baby for voting in favor of pension reforms.
Since the beginning of this year, unions have repeatedly called for strikes and demonstrations against the pension reform, calling it brutal and unfair. However, the government under President Emmanuel Macron sees these reforms as necessary to prevent an imminent hole in the pension fund.
International observers are also worried about the escalation of protests and violence in France. The Council of Europe expressed concern about this violence and demanded protection of the principle of freedom of assembly.
