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.”