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This Wednesday, December 25 marks the 21st day of mobilization against the pension reform. Rail traffic is still very disrupted. The government seems to be banking on the strike being breathless.
No truce in the fight against pension reform. However, it does take place regarding negotiations. These will resume on January 7, the government announced. Discussions between the executive and the social partners will last for almost a month.
" Today, what we can see is that despite the strike, despite the blockages, despite the inconvenience linked to the strike, public opinion for the moment in any case continues to support the social movement " , analyzes Arnaud Benedetti, editor-in-chief of the Political and Parliamentary Review .
However, in the eyes of the political scientist, the executive is playing the clock in order to win the battle of public opinion. " There is always risk taking in this type of strategy," says Arnaud Benedetti. Especially since we see today that there is a social climate where a certain number of dissatisfactions, which are not incidentally linked to the subject of pensions, also increase the mass of opinions hostile to this reform. e. "
For him, this strategy is calculated. " The political gamble of the executive is to consider that its electoral base, which has nevertheless changed since the 2017 election, will give it discharge from having stood firm on a reform which is an emblematic reform . Obviously, there will be a social cost in public opinion, but the cost is probably estimated by the government to be less than the gains that a firmness could bring it which would enable it to carry out this reform ”, concludes Arnaud Benedetti.
Situation still very disturbed at SNCF
The situation remains very disturbed at SNCF this Wednesday with on average one TGV out of 3, a Transilien out of 6 and three TER out of 10. In the " big Parisian stations " of the East, North and Montparnasse, TGVs even do sleep in the morning. Neither departure nor arrival " before the beginning of the afternoon, " warned the SNCF.
For the crossover weekend of the holidays, from Friday 27 to Sunday 29 December, the SNCF announced that it intended to run 6 TGVs out of 10. The journey is confirmed and guaranteed " for the most part " by 800,000 travelers having a reservation on these dates. The others are " invited " to exchange their tickets. " At the end of twenty days of strike, we are at 400 million euros in turnover which will not have been achieved during this period ", announced this Tuesday December 24 the boss of the SNCF, Jean-Pierre Farandou.
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Traffic is also very low on the RATP side, with 14 metro lines closed and RERs in droppings. Only automatic lines 1 and 14 operate normally. Tram traffic is “ close to normal ” and bus traffic “ improving ” with three quarters of vehicles on average in the streets.
I understand people who demonstrate because they are afraid of losing benefits. But social laws must be changed. Compared to Germany, the French can retire much earlier. With us, it starts at 65 and it can go to 67 because there are baby boomers and you have to have money for them. And I think it will be good to level the big gaps between the social strata.
Pension reform in France: the strike seen from Germany by Gaby Stange, professor of philosophy and French in the north of the country. 12/25/2019 - by Ariane Gaffuri Play
The strike movement also affects refineries, but the supply of service stations is " almost normal ", even if the situation is locally more tense in the PACA region, assured this Tuesday December 24 the French Union of Petroleum Industries (UFIP ).
At the Paris Opera, around forty dancers gave a mini-show in front of the Palais Garnier, in white tutu to demonstrate against the reform that threatens their special regime. But the executive, which wants to replace the 42 existing pension plans with a universal point system, excludes going back on the abolition of special plans, recalled its new "Mr. Pensions", Laurent Pietraszewski .
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