Following the use of Article 49.3 of the Constitution by Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne and following the rejection of the motion of censure, the pension reform bill was adopted on March 20, 2023 by the National Assembly and should enter into force by the end of the year.
Very angry, many citizens are trying to make themselves heard and to obtain the withdrawal of this reform by demonstrating in the streets and going on strike. While a new day of demonstrations and strikes should be held this Thursday, March 23, 2023, famous French personalities have decided to mobilize as well.
A group of around 300 celebrities such as Juliette Binoche, Laure Calamy, Isabelle Carré, Jonathan Cohen, Camille Cottin, Audrey Fleurot, Michel Hazanavicius or Camélia Jordana have signed an open letter addressed to the President of the Republic Emmanuel Macron to denounce this reform of pensions which was not approved by the people but imposed by the government by force.
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“This precariousness is even greater for women…”
“You have chosen to force through an unfair, inefficient pension reform, affecting the most precarious and women the hardest, rejected by the vast majority of the population, and even a minority in the National Assembly. thus write the signatories of the letter published in the newspaper “Liberation”. Deploring the use of 49.3 to push the bill through by force, they also express their support for those who “rightly strike and demonstrate”.
“Surveys have amply demonstrated that this precariousness is even greater for women than for men, that roles are rarer after 50 years for us, actresses for example” can we also read. The celebrities then draw attention to the consequences of the reform for intermittent performers, artists, authors and all actors in the world of culture in the broad sense. What lead them to call for the “immediate withdrawal” of the reform.
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