- Two days after the publication of the first decrees implementing the pension reform, the unions are calling on Tuesday, June 6, for a 14th day of mobilization.
- Authorities expect between 400,000 and 600,000 people at 250 gathering points, including 40,000 to 70,000 in the capital.
- According to police sources, 11,000 police and gendarmes will be deployed, including 4,000 in Paris. In addition, a thousand radicals, including some from abroad, are expected, according to the same sources. "The thugs and the black blocs, we are waiting for them firmly and we will disperse them," assured Monday evening the prefect of police of Paris, Laurent Nuñez.
- SNCF traffic is announced "very slightly disrupted" with "nine trains out of ten" on average, and "normal" in Ile-de-France on the entire RATP network. A third of flights are cancelled from Paris-Orly.
- For its part, the government aims for the law to enter into force on September 1 and expects the protest to run out of steam.
The bill of the Liot group (Freedoms, Independence, Overseas and Territories) repealing the main provision of the pension reform is in principle to be debated Thursday in the hemicycle of the National Assembly.
10:22 am: for Aurélien Pradié (LR), "no time" to vote a motion of censure
LR deputy Aurélien Pradié said Tuesday that "this is not the time" to vote a motion of censure against the government if the bill to repeal the transition to retirement at 64 is torpedoed by the government on Thursday.
"Today, is not the time," said on the set of LCI the deputy of the Lot opposed to the pension reform and who had voted on March 20 to overthrow the government after the passage of this highly contested text via the constitutional article 49.3, allowing an adoption without a vote. This motion of censure had failed by 9 votes, with the support of twenty deputies The Republicans.
9:00 am: "There will be people in the street", according to FO
"There will be people in the street," said Frédéric Souillot (FO) on France 2 Tuesday morning, counting on a million people. Sophie Binet (CGT) also predicted a mobilization "still extremely high" on BFMTV / RMC.
8:16 am: bus network disrupted in Rennes due to blockage
The bus network of Rennes and its metropolis was disrupted Tuesday morning because of the blocking of deposit by protesters opposed to the pension reform, said the network manager.
With AFP and Reuters
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