'We cannot gamble on the future of our pensions, this reform is necessary,' Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne told lawmakers.
Opposition lawmakers in France's National Assembly booed and jeered as Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne announced she was pushing through controversial pension reforms as it looked clear the government did not have the support to win the planned vote.
Within minutes, an angry crowd gathered at the Place de la Concorde, across the river from the National Assembly, to denounce the move. French unions called forA protester waves a SUD trade union flag during a demonstration on Place de la Concorde in Paris, after the French government pushed a pension reform plan through parliament without a vote, on March 16, 2023.
This is not the first time President Macron's minority government has used Article 49:3 when it looked like it would not get the needed support to pass a bill. However, the conservative Les Republicains party was quick to say it would neither bring nor vote a motion of no confidence in the government. Party president Eric Ciotti said the way the reforms had been pushed through was"a failure of several years of politics" and showed, he said,"a deep crisis in our institutions".
The new law will also raise the number of years needed to retire on a full pension, meaning many people who began working in their mid-twenties, or mothers who took time off work to raise children, will have to work until they are 67 before they can receive a full pension.
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