Weakened, badly battered, but still standing. After a fierce parliamentary debate this Monday, Elizabeth Borne she will be able to maintain herself as prime minister after saving by only 9 votes the motion of no confidence that weighed on her. So things, France will launch the controversial reform of the pension system and the threat of a dissolution of the Assembly that the President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron, had slipped, in case the motion had gone ahead, is neutralized.
However, the climate of social unrest is far from calming down. The unions keep their calls for mobilization that should lead to a great national protest this Thursday.
The origin of all this discomfort is in the project defended by Macron of delay the legal retirement age to 64 (2 years more than currently). The prime minister risked her neck in this vote, which Macron’s party tried to push forward with the support of center-right formations.
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