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1:20 p.m. : “Democracy needs to be well represented” and those who were elected by the French “must be exemplary”, continues Olivier Véran. The government spokesperson “gets alarmed” climate within the National Assembly, with insults, threats, which “can lead to social violence, violence against elected officials and that is never good”.
1:02 p.m. : How does he perceive the content of the debates in the Assembly on pension reform? “We must be exemplary in respecting our institutions”underlines the spokesman of the government, Olivier Véran, guest of the program “Political Questions” on France Inter, with franceinfo and The world.
12:39 : “Anything that, even symbolically, is an appeal to hatred must be banned”, estimates on BFMTV the leader of the Renaissance deputies in the Assembly, Aurore Bergé. She reacted to the doll representing Elisabeth Borne, hanged on a tank of the CGT, during the demonstration of yesterday in Marseilles. “You don’t convince that way.”
12:33 p.m. : Here is the excerpt where this topic is discussed:
12:36 p.m. : “Whether it’s my face or that of one of my government colleagues on the ball, for me it’s the same thing. (…) The image is unpleasant, it is violent. (…) I find it especially appalling for its author.”
The Minister of Labor reacted to the tweet of LFI deputy Thomas Portes which earned him 15 days of exclusion from the National Assembly.
12:30 p.m. : “As far as I am concerned, the incident is closed”believes Olivier Dussopt, about the tweet of the deputy LFI Thomas Portes presenting him treading a balloon with his effigy.
12:23 p.m. : The revaluation of small retirement pensions will concern “200,000 people a year”, out of 800,000 retirements each year, recalls Olivier Dussopt. Among them, how many will be affected by the minimum pension of 1,200 euros gross? “JI can’t tell you exactly how much, it will change every year”replies Olivier Dussopt, while this point is hotly debated.
12:17 p.m. : What guarantee can he give to the demonstrators? The Minister of Labor denies being in a “bargaining logic” and ensures that consultation with the unions has already made it possible to change the reform, in particular on the new legal age of departure retained (64 years and not 65 years).
12:19 p.m. : “Afterwards, we must not be in denial, we must take into account the mobilization, take into account the concerns. I would like the debate in the National Assembly to be able to take these concerns into account, to debate substantive subjects”believes Olivier Dussopt on France 3.
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12:20 p.m. : “Mobilization is a little lower than expected“estimates Olivier Dussopt, the Minister of Labor, guest of “Sunday in politics” on France 3, the day after the demonstrations which gathered between 963,000 and 2.5 million people against the pension reform.
11:08 : “We absolutely must explain what is in this reform and debate and enrich the text about the arduousness.”
Guest of franceinfo, MP Renaissance believes that we must continue to explain the context which, in her view, justifies this reform, namely “the reality of the demographics of our population and the fact that there are no longer enough young people to pay the pensions of future retirees from 2024-2025”.
11:09 : Air traffic resumed normally this morning at Toulouse Blagnac airport, according to information collected by France Bleu Occitanie. Take-offs were canceled yesterday from 8 p.m. due to a strike by air traffic controllers, as part of the movement against pension reform.
10:03 : Unsurprisingly, the pension reform still appears in one of many of your press titles this morning. Most daily newspapers underline the important mobilization of the day before.
09:58 : Is the senior index unconstitutional? This flagship measure of the government could be challenged by the Constitutional Council, believe politicians and legal specialists. According to them, the measure does not respect the conditions required to be integrated into a financial text, such as that of the pension reform. We tell you more here. (MANUEL COHEN / AFP)
09:26 : What does the union official think of the doll representing Elisabeth Borne, hanged on a CGT tank, during yesterday’s demonstration in Marseille? “It’s not a national slogan, it’s a union truck in a demonstration”replies Marie Buisson, of the CGT, on franceinfo.
11:14 a.m. : “We know that after several days of strike, it weighs” on those who are deprived of transport, school for their children, etc., recognizes the union official. But those who go on strike “don’t block the country, they stop working”. According to her, the government also bears the responsibility for this slowdown in the country’s normal activity.
11:14 a.m. : “France at a standstill means that we are calling on all employees to stop work on March 7”, details Marie Buisson, secretary general of the education federation at the CGT, on franceinfo. It will then be up to the employees of each company to decide on the continuation of the movement.