Outrage burst through the streets of Paris following the announcement that President Emmanuel Macron will force through his wildly unpopular pension reforms without a vote in France’s National Assembly. As the news broke, clashes between striking workers and police kicked-off.
Macron is triggering article 49.3 of the French constitution which permits the government to declare a bill “adopted” without a vote in the National Assembly - the lower house of the French Parliament.
The anti-democratic move will provoke even further anger from the millions of people who have been on strike and out on the streets for months against the reforms which will slash pension rights.
Head of the French Communist Party, Fabien Roussel, said: “This government is not worthy of our Fifth Republic, of French democracy. Until the very end, parliament has been ridiculed, humiliated.”
Macron’s government initially claimed the reforms, which will raise the retirement age and force people to work more consecutive years, were designed to make the system “fairer”. It has more recently admitted that the true goal was “savings”. Macron, a former investment banker, last year awarded himself a pay rise, bringing his monthly salary to 15,737 euros citing "inflationary pressures"
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