On the eve of a decisive day with the debate on the motions of censure, the anger of opponents of the pension reform remains sharp, pushing the union leaders to demand an abandonment of the text, for fear of a lasting "resentment" in the population.

For Laurent Berger, number one of the CFDT, "we have gone from the feeling of being despised to a feeling of anger, especially because we deprived employees of the result of their mobilization", namely, according to him, the rejection of the text in the National Assembly if it had passed to the vote. The government chose to use 49.3, which exempts it from such a vote.


Day of mobilization Thursday

"The growing resentment and anger must serve the mobilizations in a peaceful framework and not be politically instrumentalized," the leader added in an interview with Libération. The inter-union calls for a vast day of mobilization on Thursday.

Anger and resentment that also seems to perceive the presidential majority. The boss of the Renaissance deputies Aurore Bergé judges that the votes Monday on the motions of censure will be a moment of "clarity", and that it will then be necessary to "rebuild the link" with the French.

After several days of mobilization and demonstrations, at the call of the inter-union gathering all the major organizations, the recourse Thursday to article 49.3 of the Constitution by Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne, has set fire to the powder.

Targeted

Since then, organized or spontaneous gatherings have taken place throughout the territory, calmly or with excesses. On Sunday evening, several hundred people gathered around the vast Parisian shopping center of Les Halles, chanting anti-Macron, anti-police and anti-49.3 slogans. The demonstrators interviewed by AFP during the rallies in France express anger, but march, for the most part, in peace, with slogans and placards.

Philippe Martinez, head of the CGT, says "do not understand" that "the government and especially the President of the Republic do not take our warnings seriously". "It is the responsibility" of Emmanuel Macron "if anger is at these levels," according to him.

The president of the Republicans, Eric Ciotti, reported on Twitter that his parliamentary office in Nice had been stoned in the night from Saturday to Sunday to, according to him, "pressure" so that he votes Monday the motion of censure. Other offices of pro-reform elected officials have been targeted in recent days.

The two motions tabled, by Liot (Libertés, Indépendants Outre-mer et Territoires) and by elected representatives of the National Rally (RN), will be debated and put to the vote of the National Assembly from 16:00.

First day of the baccalaureate

Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire thinks "there will be no majority to bring down the government". "But it will be a moment of truth. Is pension reform worth the fall of the government and political disorder? The answer is clearly + no +," the minister told Le Parisien on Sunday.

For the Minister of Labour, Olivier Dussopt, who has been carrying this reform for months, "of course, a motion of censure can always be adopted" in the National Assembly. "But it would have to bring together a coalition of + against +, + anti +, to obtain a very heterogeneous majority without a common political line," he told the Journal du dimanche. Monday will also be the first day of the specialty tests of the bac 2023, for nearly 540,000 high school students, amid threats of strike by supervisors.

The Ministry of Education will mobilize additional supervisors to "allow the tests to take place in the best conditions". In the event of a delay due to a transport strike, the test time will be arranged so that the candidate can floor for the planned period.

On the side of the strike of garbage collectors, the town hall of Parie estimates the volume of waste not collected in the streets at 9,600 tons Sunday, slightly down thanks to a filtering barrier that allows some trucks to pass through the incineration center of Issy-les-Moulineaux.

This strike also affects cities in the regions: in Rennes, garbage cans have been piling up on the sidewalks for a week and in Nantes since at least March 15.

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