A crucial day. Seven deputies and seven senators will meet this Wednesday behind closed doors to seek a compromise on the pension reform. An agreement between the Palais Bourbon and the Palais du Luxembourg is essential for a final vote on Thursday in the Assembly, at high risk for the executive.

At the same time, an eighth day of action will take place at the initiative of the inter-union. Still very followed in the energy and among the Parisian garbage collectors who voted to continue their movement "at least until March 20", the mobilization seems however to be running out of steam in the refineries and some parts of transport, including the RATP. In the street, according to police sources, intelligence predicts between 650 and 850,000 demonstrators, less than on March 7, the culmination of the mobilization (1.28 million). The Parisian procession will shake at 14 p.m. from the Invalides to finish Place d'Italie.


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No public debates

A part of the left had asked that the debates be public to avoid, according to the coordinator of La France insoumise, Manuel Bompard, "tricks and shenanigans". In vain, the Presidency of the Assembly rejected the request. The leader of the LFI deputies, Mathilde Panot, who will be part of the CMP, has therefore promised to tweet the exchanges and organize press briefings outside the room.

The government, highly contested on this reform to which a majority of the French remain hostile, counts on this commission to find a compromise, but without touching the heart of the text, the postponement of the legal age of departure from 62 to 64 years. An agreement is likely because the Macronists and the right are in the majority. If successful, the text will be submitted Thursday morning to the Senate, dominated by the right, which will validate it one last time.



But the suspense remains on the vote that must follow in the afternoon in the National Assembly. Voting for the text is "not support for the government," Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne said on Tuesday. "A majority exists that is not afraid of reforms, even unpopular ones, when they are necessary."

But, "until the last moment there will be uncertainty," a government source told AFP. These doubts raise the possibility that the government will trigger section 49.3 of the Constitution, which allows adoption without a vote. Drawing 49.3 also exposes the executive to a motion of censure.

  • National Assembly
  • Senate
  • Pension reform 2023
  • Renaissance (political party)
  • La France Insoumise (LFI)
  • Strike