the inter-union requests the suspension of the project and “mediation”, confirms Philippe Martinez

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10:45 a.m. : A few meters behind the head of the procession, Philippe Martinez is hailed by many activists for his last hours at the head of the CGT #greve28mars #ClermontFerrand https://t.co/zksuzyuL4f

10:45 a.m. : The procession of the 10th day of mobilization against the pension reform sets off in Clermont-Ferrand with the inter-union in the lead #greve28mars https://t.co/X4PR6HiZ3A

10:38 : On the Porte d’Alma ring road, the demonstrators are in the process of lifting the blockage to go to the demonstration planned in downtown Rennes https://t.co/GN3GLValon

10:38 : Traffic is picking up on the Rennes ring road. Opponents of the reform who have been blocking the tracks since this morning are heading for the city center, where the demonstration is due to start at 11 a.m.

10:19 : The Defender of Rights Claire Hédon, who was alarmed by certain images of the police, will not be present in the command room of the prefect of police of Paris to follow the operations during the demonstration, deny her services with France Televisions. Having received the invitation last night, she could not change her schedule. This morning, the prefect Laurent Nunez affirmed on France Inter that she had responded positively.

10:16 a.m. : The image of Emmanuel Macron is also tarnished. According to an Odoxa barometer for Public Sénat and the regional press, only 30% of respondents believe that he makes a “Good President of the Republic”, down six points from the previous month. His rating is falling, including among Renaissance sympathizers.

10:08 : Will Elisabeth Borne resist this political sequence? Majority executives anonymously express their doubts to our journalist Paul Barcelonne. “Not that Borne is deserving, but someone should be able to run the shop”believes one of them, while another judges that there is “peril in the house”.

09:54 : At the same time, on Europe 1the communist deputy Fabien Roussel denounced the violence, but accused authorities “of a kind of complicity” towards members of the black bloc, “which makes it possible to rot the social movement” : “It’s the Home Office’s responsibility to go after them specifically. How can they let them pass?” On France Inter, a little earlier, the prefect of police of Paris assured to respect the ban on preventive arrests.

09:51 : “I call on everyone to show as much composure as possible in the face of the provocations made by the ordering parties of the police”launched earlier the deputy Mathilde Panot, president of the LFI group in the Assembly, on BFMTV. She believes that the government, which accuses her party of encouraging violence, is seeking a “grotesque diversion”.

09:36 : According to a note that franceinfo was able to consult, the authorities fear overflows this morning for “exhaust the forces of order”. And are also worried about the radicalization of certain unionized demonstrators who would be tempted, according to the intelligence services, to join violent groups.

09:20 : Protesters let a few cars pass on the ring road in Rennes #blockages https://t.co/la6V5mNC31

09:20 : Demonstrators block or filter the passage on several roads in the Rennes agglomeration, reports France Bleu, which recalls that calls for operations “dead city” had been launched on social networks. In Nantes, several dams disrupt traffic on the ring road, again according to France Bleu.

09:36 : Always on RTLBruno Retailleau also considered dissolving the Assembly as a way out of the crisis: “That’s not what I want, dissolution. Simply, if chaos were to persist, in a democracy, the only way to rise above a blockage is to resort to suffrage”believes the leader of senators LR.

09:35 : Just now, on RTLSenator Bruno Retailleau, president of the group Les Républicains, accused the Nupes of fueling violence against the police: “Emmanuel Macron has made blunders, but which I do not put on the same level as the institutionalization of violence by the French far left and in particular justified by [Jean-Luc Mélenchon].“

08:57 : “I would not say that there is systematic police violence, but the evidence is that there has been a change in the instructions given” after 49.3, estimates the first secretary of the PS Olivier Faure on franceinfo. Earlier, on France Inter, the prefect of police of Paris Laurent Nunez rather described a “rise in volume” And “in radicalism” black bloc.

08:49 : “The constitutionnal Council [rendra ses conclusions] in 15 days, three weeks. It’s a long time, in this moment of tension which is ours. It is too long”, believes Laurent Berger, still on France Inter. He claims not to be aware of a possible future meeting between the inter-union and the government.

08:50 : “We must suspend the 64-year-old measure. We must take a month, a month and a half, to ask one, two, three people to do mediation, conciliation, to go and see the different parties in saying, ‘What do you want?'”

Laurent Berger specifies on France Inter his request for a pause in the pension reform, by asking for the appointment of one or more mediators to conduct a consultation. He thinks it possible to find a “social compromise” around questions like “the wear and tear of seniors at work”. The boss of the CFDT says he speaks on behalf of the intersyndicale.

08:38 : The demonstrators met yesterday in front of the incinerator of Ivry still have concerns. “Of course three weeks without pay hurts”, recognizes David, employee of the incinerator, determined to hold. Jean, one of his colleagues, on the other hand, fears the consequences of the tensions and fatigue of the police: “At some point, we are all human, there will inevitably be a police blunder … For the government to back down, it may take that.”

08:35 : Aurore, IT developer, explains that she was warned by other activists of the rally in front of the Ivry incinerator, which she considers to be strategically blocked: “Going on strike is not enough. There is a need to take disturbing actions, otherwise we are not listened to”. “What we dream of is that the big bosses call [Emmanuel] Macron saying to him: ‘Stop your bullshit, we are losing too much money'”summarizes for his part Joël, executive at EDF.

08:33 : On the sidelines of the demonstrations, opponents of the pension reform are pursuing other actions. Yesterday, our journalist Mathilde Goupil was in Ivry, where the garbage collectors received reinforcements from strikers from other sectors to block an incinerator. They explained to him the importance in their eyes of this mode of action.

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08:32 : The prefect of police of Paris excludes once again to put an end to the activity of Brav-M, these motorcycle brigades whose action is particularly disputed since the beginning of the movement and which are the target of a petition on the National Assembly website. Laurent Nunez says to judge “staggering” And “insulting” comparisons between these brigades and the voltigeurs, a unit of motorcycle police disbanded after the murder of Malik Oussékine.

08:16 : Rights defender Claire Hédon, who denounced images of police violence “unacceptable” on the sidelines of demonstrations, will be present in the command room at the Paris police headquarters, says the prefect Laurent Nunez on France Inter. “She will see that we are intervening to disperse a black bloc”he assures.

08:02 : 🔴🗣 “The #ReformeDesRetraites has no political legitimacy. This text, the French do not want it” @sebchenu calls for a consultation of the people by referendum. #Les4V https://t.co/8xYYUn1RCG

08:33 : “There would be something simple to get out of this conflict: consult the French by referendum, perhaps after the opinion of the Constitutional Council”estimated this morning the deputy RN Sébastien Chenu on France 2. He calls for the withdrawal of the text and the resignation of Elisabeth Borne, whose political future he thinks is compromised in any case: “Madame Borne is at her wit’s end, she is finishing the job and then she is leavingTo.”

07:53 : For this 10th day of strike and demonstrations, the national press is wondering more about the impasse that seems to be emerging for the government. “Emmanuel Macron’s arrogance in the face of protests has reignited the flames”estimated Release. Le Figaro describes a stuck executive: “To renounce 49.3 is to renounce any bold reform. Except within the framework of a real coalition in which no one believes anymore.”

07:36 : Of course, the front pages of the press are rather dominated by the new day of mobilization against the pension reform. In the local press, it is the question of possible clashes that dominates. In his editorial, The Parisian fear escalation: “We are worried because the worst may be ahead of us: the death of a protester, or a police officer, or both at the same time.”

07:07 : According to an AFP count, 15.7% of service stations in France are short of at least one fuel, and 7.4% are dry, against the backdrop of a strike in refineries. In Vaucluse, the prefecture extended until Thursday the restriction on the sale of fuel to 30 liters per person for individuals.

07:00 : In other large French cities, public transport will be less disrupted by the mobilization against the pension reform. Here are today’s traffic forecasts for Marseille, Lyon, Lille, Toulouse, Bordeaux, Nice, Nantes and Strasbourg.

06:56 : In Rennes, the main bus depot is blocked by demonstrators this morning, announces the Rennes transport authority. The bus network is therefore “strongly disturbed”.

06:52 : It’s starting to be time to take the transport. Here is a reminder of today’s traffic forecasts for trains and public transport in Ile-de-France, which you can also consult on a dedicated page.