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Two days before a new protest against pension reform in France, unions maintain pressure on the government to submit its plan Wednesday. In the meantime, the government is putting the finishing touches on its project.
The week promises to be crucial on the pension front. After spending the past few days monitoring traffic forecasts and refining the latest arbitrations, the weekend has been studious for the Ministers of Transport, Health, Public Accounts, the Economy and the United States. Commissioner for Pension Reform. That Sunday afternoon, they were still in Matignon. And they had to meet again tonight at the Élysée.
For if Emmanuel Macron remains silent on the retreats, it is he who is at the maneuver, he who will validate the detailed project that Philippe should present on Wednesday. With two key points: how far to go on taking into account the arduousness? How long will the transition periods last for the end of special diets?
On Monday, the head of state is lunching with majority officials to tinker with the language elements of "Macronie". In the afternoon, the contours of the reform will finally be presented to the social partners. The executive is open to certain concessions, including the length of the transition between the old and the new system. But he intends to remain firm on the principle of reform: the introduction of a universal regime with points. He will go to the end, he repeats, staging his determination. While conceding that his plan will not only make happy. " I do not believe in magic ads ," concedes the head of government in the Sunday Journal , lucid in the face of a social movement that could be prolonged.
New day of strike Tuesday
Regulated by the mobilization of December 5 , which has brought down more than 800,000 protesters in the streets, the national secretary of the CGT Philippe Martinez also does not intend to abandon the standoff with the government. " We will keep until the withdrawal " of the reform, in which " there is nothing good ", he warned.
A new day of strike and demonstrations, national and interprofessional is already scheduled Tuesday, December 10. Another is planned for Thursday. In the meantime, the day of Monday looks very difficult in stations and stations in the Paris region. The SNCF recommended users to avoid the Transiliens, fearing an influx in stations in the Paris area " very dangerous ". Even the alarming tone at RATP, which invites " all travelers who have the opportunity to postpone their travel ", given the " high risk of saturation of the network ", including 10 metro lines closed.
[Social Movement] ⚠️🔴 Traffic is extremely disrupted on metro and RER #RATP networks. The tram and bus networks will be 50% insured. The details of the forecasts for Monday, December 9 below ⬇️ and on our website: https://t.co/7OhMS4j8Sg pic.twitter.com/Q4YIJXxlra
RATP Customer Service (@ClientsRATP) December 8, 2019SNCF plans to run only one TGV and one Transilien out of five. On the network of TER, there will be three out of ten links, " mainly provided by bus, " said the direction in a statement. An Intercity train is forecast for five " on average ", while international traffic will be "very disturbed". In total, SNCF plans to circulate between 15% and 20% of traffic.