Paris (EFE) sufficient majority of deputies.
Dozens of people with banners and emblems of the General Confederation of Labor (CGT) occupied some peripheral roads (the ring road of Paris) at the height of the Glignancourt Gate, starting shortly after 7:00 in the morning, causing traffic jams.
“That should not be done. There are democratic weapons of contestation”, replied the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, in an interview with the RTL radio station, in which he insisted that throughout the movement against the pension reform, union demonstrations have been allowed and organized , which have developed with hardly any incidents.
Last night, however, after the activation by the Government of article 49.3 of the Constitution to skip the vote in the National Assembly and adopt this reform by decree, the incidents multiplied for hours at night in Paris, but also in Marseille, Nantes , Rennes, Lyon and other cities in the country.
Darmanin indicated that although “there were no serious incidents” because there were no serious injuries, law enforcement had to act and made 310 arrests, including 258 in Paris.
The minister explained that in Rennes, Albi, Marseille or Paris, some of those who participated in these spontaneous demonstrations tried to attack official buildings and representative offices of politicians from the Macron bloc.
Barricades and fires in Paris
In the capital there were scenes of barricades and fires with the mountains of garbage that have accumulated in half of the city’s districts due to the strike of the collection workers for ten days.
In this regard, the head of the Interior explained that the Prefecture of Paris (government delegation) has activated the obligation to work for some strikers for health reasons, after a scuffle with the socialist mayoress, Anne Hidalgo, who had refused to do so. .
“I respect the garbage collection strike”, but “what is not acceptable is unsanitary conditions” and “since the mayoress has not wanted to assume her responsibilities” the prefecture has done it, he explained.
From now on at 3:00 p.m. local time (2:00 p.m. GMT), which is the maximum period, the opposition will present at least two motions of no confidence against the government of the Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne, which in principle do not have much chance of success.
But if any of them obtained a majority in the Assembly, Borne and his Executive would fall and the political crisis could give rise to an early call for legislative elections.
The unions, which remain united in their opposition to the reform, this Thursday called for the multiplication of protest actions at the local level this weekend, and have called a ninth day of strikes and national demonstrations on Thursday of next week.
The head of the CGT in the railway sector, Laurent Brun, said this morning in an interview with the France Info radio station that the objective is “for the economy to paralyze” and for that “we must multiply the strikes.”
The opposition to Macron organizes to try to overthrow his government
The opposition to the French president, Emmanuel Macron, both on the extreme right and on the left, is organized separately to try to overthrow the Government with some of the motions of censure that are presented today after the adoption by decree of the controversial pension reform .
On the left, the leader of La Francia Insumisa (LFI), Jean-Luc Mélenchon, announced this Friday that his party is going to renounce its own motion of censure and that it will support the one announced by a parliamentary group called LIOT (Freedom, Independents , Overseas and Territories), made up of about twenty centrist, regionalist and nationalist deputies (of the 577 in the chamber).
In an interview with the France Info radio station, Mélénchon justified this strategy to give more possibilities to the overthrow of the Prime Minister’s Executive, Élisabeth Borne, and insisted that the ultimate objective is to knock down the pension reform.
“This text does not have any parliamentary legitimacy,” he denounced, before insisting that it has been carried out by a government “that is a minority in the country.”
After the activation this Thursday by Borne of article 49.3 of the Constitution to skip the vote on the reform in the Assembly, where the necessary absolute majority was not guaranteed, the opposition can present motions of censure that, if successful, would mean the fall of the Government and also the invalidation of the reform itself.
The leader of the extreme right, Marine Le Pen, immediately announced that her party, the National Group (RN), will present its own motion of censure, but also that it will support any other that allows the overthrow of the Borne Executive.
The president of the RN, Jordan Bardella, reiterated this morning on the France Info radio station that they will support other motions of censure such as LIOT’s because their objective is to remove Borne: “I think he has to go.”
For any of the motions of censure that are going to be presented to prosper (the deadline to formalize them ends at 3:30 p.m. local time (2:30 p.m. GMT), the vote of 289 deputies would be necessary, that is, the support of LIOT, the coalition, would not be enough. of lefts NUPES and the RN.
It would be necessary for some deputies from Los Republicanos (LR), the traditional right-wing party, to distance themselves from the official position of their formation, which has shown that it is in full decomposition with the pensions debate, since for years it has been the who has defended a reform to delay the retirement age.
“All hypotheses are possible,” declared Aurélien Pradié, who is the visible head of the LR deputies who were against the reform, whose main axis is to delay the minimum retirement age from 62 to 64 years.