OUR Franceor at least her big dick takes to the streets protesting his plans Emmanuel Macron raise the retirement age from 62 to 64. After months of strikes and protests, tensions came to a head last Thursday amid violent incidents in Paris and other cities, incidents that have stirred some memories. Yellow vests.

The ongoing protests affect, in fact, daily life in the country, as well as France’s relations with the “outside world”. In truth, the visit that the English king was to make in France Charles postponed due to the tense atmosphere prevailing in the country.

The unions have called for a new strike mobilization next Tuesday, March 28, but at the same time other, smaller and apparently spontaneous demonstrations are breaking out in the country, which resemble the mobilization of those called Yellow vestsas the non-partisan and union “movement” of protesters in fluorescent yellow vests that rocked France in 2018 against higher fuel taxes, then-President Macron has gone down in history.

Memories of the yellow vest

Can the so-called “yellow vests” return? In this regard, opinion is currently divided.

Since the beginning of the year, strikes and anti-government demonstrations have been taking place in France, and tension has not abated over time, but has grown.

Macron’s decision to push ahead with the implementation of pension reform, bypassing a vote in the national assembly, by activating Article 49.3 of the Constitution, led to an impeachment petition against the government of Prime Minister Elizabeth Bourne, which survived but suffered losses.

“The parliamentary group, close to Macron and the government, no longer has a majority in the national assembly (250 seats out of 577). The fact that she manages to pass bills and stay politically alive thanks to votes of no confidence, she owes to the 61 deputies of the center-right Republican group, which has not officially joined the government bloc, but sends “lifebuoys” towards Elizabeth Bourne,” we wrote in “K” last Monday, March 20, after voting on a vote of no confidence in the French National Assembly.

“And if the (ruling) party already has problems with the majority in parliament, then the “rebellion” against the pension reform showed that the Renaissance (i.e. Macron’s party) is much weaker … Prime Minister Born believed that she could count on the support of the centre-right party. Republicans give it the necessary number of votes to carry out the reform […] However […] a group of 19 Republicans defied the orders of the party leadership and said they would support a vote of no confidence in the Macron government,” Politico wrote in an analysis dated March 24, while also expressing doubts about the political future of the Macron faction in view of the next 2027 presidential election.

On the way to the 2027 presidential election

“In many systems, ruling parties have deep roots and ideological underpinnings that, at least in theory, give them a raison d’etre that goes beyond the exercise of power. But this is not the case for Macron’s party, which was born for the sole purpose of bringing its founder to the Elysée Presidential Palace and then backing his government. […] With a few exceptions, he has not produced bold figures who would otherwise be natural successors to the president,” wrote Politico editor Nicholas Winokur.

However, for now, Emmanuel Macron, 45, does not seem to be backing down. In the context TV interview granted last Wednesday, defended the reform. Taking it a step further, he criticized unions for not presenting their own alternative pension reform proposals.

From the press conference room in Brussels on Friday Macron condemned violence and said that he was ready to discuss with the unions, but only on issues related to working conditions and wages.

In an attempt to defend pension reform as “necessary,” the French president often points out that France’s retirement age is one of the lowest in Europe.

Next steps

In theory, the pension reform has already passed, on his side Emmanuel Macron bypassing the National Assembly and then coming out politically alive through votes of no confidence. The only hurdle left to overcome is the constitutional court as opposition parties attempt to deconstruct unconstitutional reform promoted by the government of Elizabeth Bourne. Alternatively, they would like to force Macron to go to referendum on this particular issue. However, the side of the French president has so far refused to succumb to the corresponding pressure, sending a message “no dissolution of parliament, no reorganization, no referendum“.

Something else that has been suggested by some trade unionists, “freeze” pension reform for six monthsto lower the tone in the country and carry out new negotiations between the government and trade unions in an atmosphere of de-escalation … However, Macron’s side has already suffered damage that, in a sense, should not be “wasted”, the opera means that “ideal” for the government and President at this stage would be able to “close” immediately, four years before the next elections in 2027, the head of the pension reform, even if with losses.