A new call for mobilization is launched by the inter-union on Wednesday March 15 for the eighth day of strike against the pension reform. The same day, the bill is studied in a joint committee after being adopted by the Senate last weekend.
The start of the Bordeaux event on March 15 is scheduled for noon on the Place de la Bourse. The procession will follow the usual route of the three previous mobilizations. First the quays towards Cours d’Alsace-et-Lorraine, then Rue des Frères-Bonie, Cours d’Albret to Place Gambetta, and down Cours Georges-Clémenceau, then Allées de Tourny and the rue Esprit-des-Lois to complete the loop on place de la Bourse. Our journalists will be live again to let you follow this day.
In transport, TBM announces that the network will circulate “normally”. Tram interruptions and bus diversions are still to be expected, however, “as the procession moves”.
Home stretch
Saturday March 11, during the seventh day of mobilization, 18,000 people marched in Bordeaux according to the organizers. A figure down from the previous demonstration on March 7, the most massive mobilization to date, which brought together 100,000 people in the Gironde capital.
Despite the mobilization of the street and renewable strikes in the energy and transport sectors, the Senate adopted the text this weekend with 195 votes for and 112 against, extensively amended by the right (creation of a contract to promote the recruitment of over 60s, extension of the “long career” system of the pension reform to those who started working between the ages of 20 and 21, etc.).
From 9 a.m., Wednesday March 15, the debates will continue in the Joint Joint Committee (CMP). The latter brings together seven deputies and seven senators, as well as their deputies.
Several scenarios
Monday, March 13, Boris Vallaud, leader of the Socialist deputies, wrote a letter to the President of the Assembly to request that the debates of the CMP be broadcast live. A demand challenged by Yaël Braun-Pivet. The negotiations will therefore take place behind closed doors, with one objective: to reach a compromise while the measures debated by the deputies, then the senators, have not been voted on in the same terms.
If agreed, the text can be validated Thursday, March 16 at 9 a.m. in the Senate then at 3 p.m. in the Assembly. If positive, this last vote will signify the final adoption of the text by Parliament. In the event of recourse to article 49.3, motions of censure against the government could be tabled. These would then be debated on Saturday, March 18 in the afternoon. Another scenario: the discussions within the joint committee fail.
Parliament will then have until March 26 to decide, otherwise the reform could be implemented by government order, as provided for in the Constitution. An unlikely scenario, which has never happened before in the country’s parliamentary history.
