12h09 : “Voluntarily cutting off the power is illegal”launches Olivier Véran, at the end of the Council of Ministers, following the power cuts which affected some 5,200 customers towards Annonay, the stronghold of Olivier Dussopt, the Minister of Labor.
12h00 : “The door of government remains open” to the unions, says Olivier Véran, but will they be received at the Elysée by the president as they requested? Asked regarding this point, the government spokesman evaded the question.
11:55 a.m. : “Blocking is the opposite of dialogue”, criticizes Olivier Véran, at the exit of the Council of Ministers. Follow his speech in our live.
11:43 am : “The right participates in the constitutional fragility of this text.”
“The parliamentary debate is progressing, we are halfway through the text”, exposes the ecologist Guillaume Gontard, who expresses his incomprehension of the use of this article 38, which has brought down several hundred amendments from the left. The left groups will challenge the right on the use of this article during the conference of presidents which is to be held at 11:45 am.
11:50 a.m. : “This is a serious moment (…) in the history of the Senate”deplores the environmental senator Guillaume Gontard regarding the use of article 38. He denounces “a blow of force”. “It’s a political choice. What happened last night is extremely serious, we will not leave things as they are”abounds his communist colleague Eliane Assassi, worrying regarding a “democratic drift”.
11:47 : The senatorial left denounces in a press conference the recourse this night to article 38 which makes it possible to shorten the debates. Socialist Senator Patrick Kanner castigates an act “of great violence”. He accuses the senatorial right, majority in the upper house, “for having wanted to gag the opposition”.
11:37 : Bonjour @Marie, the inter-union announced two new days of mobilization. The first will be on Saturday. The second date has not yet been decided. The confederal president of the CFTC, Cyril Chabanier, spoke on franceinfo “March 14 or 15”, “the day of the joint joint committee”.
11h33 : Good morning ! When is the next mobilization day?
11h29 : After yesterday’s mobilization on pension reform, the challenge for opponents is that the movement does not wither away. “We will tighten our belts to strike and we will do with it!”testify of the demonstrators near Hadrien Bect and William de Lesseux.
(ALAIN JOCARD / AFP)
11:10 a.m. : #Greve8mars #ReformeDesRetraites blockages of the entire industrial-port area of #SaintNazaire https://t.co/Bw86cWoYGF
11h12 : In Saint-Nazaire, in Loire-Atlantique, blocking operations are also underway in the industrial and port area.
11h07 : Dead port in Le Havre. Since 5 a.m. this morning, dockers have been blocking access to the various terminals in the city. 100% of the employees go on strike.
11h12 : Several “dead ports” operations block several ports including those of Rouen and Marseille-Fos. The port of Le Havre, the first in France for containers, has been blocked since early this morning, as reported by a journalist from Humanity on the spot.
11h13 : Bonjour @Joelfor the moment, the management of TotalEnergies assures that there is at this stage “no lack of fuel” in its stations and that “stocks in depots and service stations are at a high level”. Currently, refineries continue to produce fuel, but shipments are blocked. When the reserves on site are full, they will therefore have to stop, but this would require several days of blockages.
10h28 : Hello, allow me to insist a third time. What regarding service stations? Is there a fear of fuel shortage?Thank you
10h24 : “If there were real blocking actions, typically in refineries, we wouldn’t let that happen.”
While fuel shipments are still blocked at the exit of the refineries of the TotalEnergies group, according to the CGT, the government warns that it will call in the police in the event of “real blockages”.
09h41 : “We knew from the start that this reform would be difficult, but we know how necessary it is”reacts on France Inter the Minister of Labor, Olivier Dussopt, the day following the mobilization which brought together between 1.28 million and 3.5 million people.
10h42 : Hello, on the road side, the CGT Transports called for actions yesterday and today as “snail operations” or “some sticking points”. On the refinery side, fuel shipments are still blocked this morning, announces the CGT-Chemistry. According to Eric Sellini, national elected representative of the CGT-Chimie who called for a renewable strike, “TotalEnergies’ large shipping sites are shut down”.
09h41 : Hello FI, do you have any information on the movements in the refineries and on that of the truck drivers?
09h00 : While the inter-union asks to be received by Emmanuel Macron, Gabriel Attal judges that“There is a time for everything”. The Minister Delegate for Public Accounts advances on BFMTV that “if today the President of the Republic received the unions, you would find the opposition to say ‘look at it interferes with the time of Parliament’“.
08h33 : “The idea is to hold out until the reform is withdrawn.”
The day following the sixth day of strike once morest the pension reform, the representative of the National Federation of Chemical Industries welcomes a day of strike which he considers unprecedented and calls for the movement to continue.
08h18 : Fuel shipments are still blocked at the exit of the refineries of the TotalEnergies group in France, according to Eric Sellini, national elected representative of the CGT-Chemistry. “The strike was renewed in the establishments of TotalEnergies in La Mède, Donges, the Raffinerie de Normandie, Feyzin and Flandres, with rates of strikers between 70% and 100%”he says.
08h13 : The inter-union asks to meet Emmanuel #Macron: “The government’s door is more than open, we are in dialogue. The President respects the institutions, the text is in the Senate”
08h12 : “The door of government is more than open” to the unions, assures Olivier Véran on RTL, while the inter-union asked to be received “emergency” at the Elysee.
08h17 : Not to vote for the pension reform on the part of the Renaissance deputies would be “a disloyal gesture”, also estimates the president of the National Assembly, Yaël Braun-Pivet, on franceinfo. Renaissance deputies who vote once morest the text or abstain will be excluded from the parliamentary group, we learned yesterday.
07h12 : We take a look at the front pages of the press which are, unsurprisingly, mainly devoted to the mobilization once morest the pension reform. Here are a few.
07h01 : For the UGICT-CGT trade union and the feminist association We All, putting an end to wage inequalities between men and women might also make it possible to finance the pension system. Our journalist Quang Pham deciphered this argument.
(AMAURY CORNU / HANS LUCAS / AFP)
06h29 : #GREVE If you have to take the train today, here is the SNCF traffic forecast:
• One in three trains for TGV Inoui and Ouigo
• One in three trains for TER
• Two out of three trains for the Thalys
• Three trains out of four for the Eurostars
• On the Intercités side, one in five trains will run during the day, but there will be no “no traffic on nights from Tuesday to Wednesday and Wednesday to Thursday”.
06h27 : The social movement once morest the bill continues, with renewable strikes affecting several key sectors of the economy. In transport, traffic is still difficult today.
06h24 : Only 75 amendments remain on Article 7 to be examined. The debates will resume at 4:30 p.m., following the session of questions to the government.
06h22 : A few minutes later, the senators Les Républicains proposed an amendment to rewrite article 7. Its adoption made “fall more than 1,100 amendments”, detailed in the hemicycle the elected LR René-Paul Savary. In protest, left-wing senators left the chamber.
07h17 : This is the first time that article 38 of the rules of the Senate has been used since its introduction in 2015. It can apply to speaking on an article, explanations of vote on an amendment or on an article, or once more to the explanations of vote on the whole of a text.
06h15 : . @BrunoRetailleau asks for the application of article 38 of the rules of the Senate to “close” the explanations of vote on the deletion amendments, in order to speed up the discussion. Only one speaker per group can speak #DirectSenat https://t.co/YX20qr51Qj
06h16 : Hectic session tonight in the upper chamber. In full examination of article 7 of the reform on the extension of the legal age of departure, the president of the group Les Républicains, Bruno Retailleau, requested the use of article 38 of the internal regulations of the Senate, which allows to shorten the debates. Its application was voted on by a show of hands despite the outcry of left-wing senators.
