French unions call for eighth round of nation-wide demonstrations to maintain pressure on the government and parliament
French unions will keep on fighting against President Emmanuel Macron’s pension reform plan despite the upper house of parliament approving the text on Saturday, a leader of one of the main unions said on Sunday.
“Given the mobilization of the population, the level of opposition to the plan you cannot resort to a democratic flaw by using this 49:3 procedure,” he said on BFM TV. Now that the Senate has passed the pension reform, whose key measure is raising the retirement age by two years to 64, it will be reviewed by a joint committee of lower and upper house lawmakers, probably on Wednesday.
If the committee agrees on a text, both chambers will have a final vote, most likely Thursday, but the outcome of that still seems uncertain in the lower chamber, where Macron’s party does not have an outright majority.
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