Uncollected rubbish mounted in the streets of Paris on Wednesday and hundreds of thousands of people marched in last-gasp protests against French President Emmanuel Macron's pension reform which is set to go before parliament.
Pedestrians walk past a pile of garbage bags that have been piling up since waste collectors went on strike against the French government's proposed pensions reform, in Paris on March 15, 2023. Christophe ARCHAMBAULT / AFP
But Derichebourg said Wednesday it would stop intervening after threats from strikers "to block the entrances and exits to our site if we continued collections for health reasons, which are legal and contractual", company executive Thomas Derichebourg told AFP. The Senate and National Assembly are set to hold votes on a compromise bill, with the minority government seeking to secure backing from the opposition Republicans party for the flagship reform of Macron's second term.
Political scientist Gilles Finchelstein, the head of the Jean-Jaures Foundation, a Paris-based think tank, said using article 49.3 would be a "defeat for Borne, the government and the president".
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