The Prime Minister of France, Elisabeth Borne, said Thursday that she does not intend to use Article 49.3 of the Constitution to approve the controversial pension reform, a measure announced by the French Executive that has provoked strikes and demonstrations throughout the country.
«Like all the bills that the government has submitted to Parliament, we will talk to all those who are willing to support a pension reform and I think this is the case of the Republicans,» he said in an interview with the television channel France 2.
Thus, Borne has explained that «to tell the French the whole truth is to tell them that revenues are falling because there are fewer and fewer assets to finance the pensions of retirees.» «I listen to the reticence, the concerns, the questions», he added, calling the pension reform «essential».
Article 49.3 of the French Constitution, used up to seven times by the Executive to give the ‘green light’, among others, to the Social Security financing law, allows a bill to be passed without a vote.
French unions, which organized a large general strike on Tuesday, have called new demonstrations for Tuesday, February 7 and Saturday, February 11 in protest against the measure within the pension reform that aims to raise the retirement age from the current 62 to 64, gradually and until 2023, until it settles.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
