France faces Thursday a new day of national mobilization at the call of the inter-union against the pension reform, in a social climate that has deteriorated further since the adoption in Parliament of the bill via the controversial recourse in section 49.3. In recent evenings, many unauthorized gatherings, as well as blockages, have taken place all over France, sometimes calm, often tense.
French people are called Thursday to a ninth day of mobilization against a very unpopular pension reform adopted, Monday, March 20, using the constitutional tool 49.3 and after the rejection of two motions of censure, including a transpartisan one. Ulcerated by this passage in force of the government in the National Assembly, the opponents of the reform are called by the unions to take to the streets and strike, for the ninth time since January 19.
Immediately after the adoption of the law, Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne on the one hand, the parliamentary opposition on their side, seized the Constitutional Council. The Elders will have to decide on the compliance of the text with the fundamental law of the Fifth Republic and have the power to validate or censor it, in whole or in part. “The Elders have one month to decide, that is until April 21”, according to constitutionalist Anne-Charlène Bezzina, lecturer at the University of Rouen, interviewed by AFP. But the decision could come before.
For this specialist, partial censorship of the text is “probable”. “The government has chosen as a legislative vehicle, to pass its reform, a bill for the amending financing of the social security budget (PLFRSS). And several voices, including that of the President of the Constitutional Council Laurent Fabius, have already warned of the risk of “budget rider” which threatens all provisions outside the financial field. »