Posted on 03/11/2023 7:01:25 PM PST by Nextrush
Mass protests involved some 3.5 million people this last Tuesday according to union organizers, the government claiming a smaller number 1.28 million.
It was a day of strike action a shutdown day in France with oil refineries, airports, railroads and schools impacted.
The strongest signs yet of mass opposition to the "pension reform' proposed by President Emmanuel Macron...
The mainstream media in France broaching the notion that President Macron may have to use the "nuclear option" of Article 49.3 to push through the pension overhaul.
That constitutional provision gives a French President the ability to pass legislation without approval of the National Assembly.
At the end of the week a news report suggesting that some in the National Assembly hope to unite the majority of its members not aligned with President Emmanuel Macron in a motion of censure against the government.
Today another day of mass protest by opponents of pension reform with next Wednesday March 15th designated as a strike-protest-shutdown day...
The nationwide protest movement against pension reform manifested itself on the streets of Lyon. A huge crowd in the thousands with union flags and other flags and banners.
Organizers estimated the crowd at 18,000 the government says only 7,000 participated...
In northern France a women's protest in Lille...
More than one million demonstrators on the streets today according to organizers the government's number 368,000...
Late tonight a 195-112 vote in favor of pension reform in the French Senate...
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Gotta pay for those immigrants.
The UK giving France 500 million pounds to keep em from crossing over the Channel.
Must be nice to live in a relatively free country...
Here in the communist-controlled U.S., it used to be OK to gather & protest...
They haven’t been able to manufacture a January 6th yet in France but I think they will try maybe sooner than later.
There were incidents during the Yellow Vests protests when they got big that made the protests look bad like vandalism at the Arc de Triomphe.
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