'This reform is unfair, unjustified, and unjustifiable,' declared a French labor confederation as Macron bypassed Parliament to raise the retirement age.
."Far-left lawmakers belonging to the France Unbowed party booed and chanted the national hymn the MarseillaiseUsing the controversial procedure to push through the plan is risky for Macron—founder of the Renaissance party—because it allows members of Parliament"to submit motions of no-confidence within 24 hours,"added."While the government has survived motions of no-confidence in recent months, the stakes are much higher this time around.
While multiple opposition groups in Parliament may respond with no-confidence motions, Marine Le Pen's far-right National Rally party has already pledged to do so.reporters of the Article 49.3 decision, calling for Borne's resignation."From the beginning, the government fooled itself into thinking it had a majority."
Socialist Party chief Olivier Faure also criticized the approach, saying that"when a president has no majority in the country, no majority in the National Assembly, he must withdraw his bill."that"this government is not worthy of our Fifth Republic, of French democracy. Until the very end, Parliament has been ridiculed, humiliated."
MP Rachel Keke of the leftist party La France Insoumise stressed that"what the government is doing makes people sick of politics. It should improve people's lives, not destroy them."
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