As well as France’s main refineries being blocked, railway transport is being disrupted and garbage is piling up on the streets of Paris and other French cities as a result of the rolling strikes
Strikes blocking fuel deliveries from French refineries ran into a sixth day on Monday, piling further pressure on President Emmanuel Macron as he races to shore up support for unpopular pension reforms in a final parliamentary vote.
Although the French Senate on Saturday approved the bill, whose key measure is raising the retirement age by two years to 64, it still faces parliamentary hurdles before it can become law, especially in the National Assembly, where Macron’s supporters do not have an outright majority. Macron’s party needs the support of Les Republicains in the National Assembly to ensure the bill is approved. But the conservative lawmakers are very divided on the issue and there are even cracks in the presidential camp, with Macron’s former Environment Minister Barbara Pompili opposing it.
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