Asked about possible demonstrations Friday night after this long-awaited decision, government spokesman Olivier Véran said he respected "movements that can express themselves".
"We hope that they can be done in peace" and "we condemn all forms of violence," he told the press after the Council of Ministers at the Elysee, while the prefect of police of Paris must take an order to prohibit Thursday night any demonstration near the Constitutional Council.
"We do not want, obviously, that there is any violent expression or any pressure whatsoever that could weigh on this or that institution of the Republic. And therefore the Constitutional Council has the right to the serenity of the debates and has the right that the decision that will be rendered, whatever it is, is respected by all," he insisted.
With this verdict, "we will have gone to the end of what is called this democratic path," said Olivier Véran, explaining that the law, if validated, will then be "promulgated" by the president.
"We are obviously looking for appeasement," he added. The Head of State "said he was willing and ready to discuss with the trade union forces" to "dialogue, to exchange in a peaceful climate what remains to be done to reform our country and especially in terms of work, employment, good employment, quality of life at work," he stressed.
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