The mobilization against the pension reform will still be followed in transport, Wednesday, March 8. The RATP plans to improve traffic in the RER and buses, but the service will still be very poor in the metro.
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For its part, the SNCF plans a slightly improved transport offer for Wednesday, with a third of the trains in circulation for the TGV and TER, against a fifth on Tuesday. At the same time, the debates on article 7 of the text are continuing in the Senate. Follow our live.
The unions ask to be received by Emmanuel Macron. At the end of a record day of mobilization, the inter-union will continue to put pressure in the street and asks to be received “emergency” by Emmanuel Macron to withdraw the reform. The Elysée did not respond directly to this request from the unions and contented itself with ensuring that “the door of the executive [était] always remained open.
Two new days of mobilization, March 11 and 15. The 6th day of mobilization against the government’s pension reform project mobilized 1.28 million demonstrators in France on Tuesday, according to figures from the Ministry of the Interior. The CGT claims for its part 3.5 million demonstrators throughout the territory. This represents a million more demonstrators than on January 31, the previous record since the beginning of the movement.
The review of Article 7, which provides for the postponement of the retirement age to 64, has begun in the Senate. The elected officials of the Palais du Luxembourg began early Tuesday evening to examine the highly contested and long-awaited article 7 of the pension reform, which provides for the decline of the legal retirement age from 62 to 64, after having voted in favor of the first part of the text on Social Security receipts. A total of 1,327 amendments were tabled on this article.
The joint joint committee scheduled for Wednesday, March 15. The timetable for the post-examination in the Senate is becoming clearer. According to information from Public Senate, confirmed by several parliamentary sources to franceinfo, the joint joint committee (CMP) on the text will be held on Wednesday March 15. That day, seven deputies and seven senators will meet to try to reach a text that suits the majority of this body, representative of the political balance of each chamber. Whether the CMP reaches an agreement or not, the bill will then return to the National Assembly and the Senate.