This reform as the principal measure the delay of the minimum retirement age from 60 to 62 years.
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| French Truckers made caravans on highways, railway strikes were intensified and many gas stations ran out of fuel Monday as the protests gathered pace before the vote in the Senate an unpopular pension reform. |
French Senate heard the pressure of the street and defied President Nicolas Sarkozy yesterday in the explosive conflict over pensions. The Upper House refused to proceed to the vote the cutting bill and adjourned. At least until today, and probably later, according to several senators. The retreat offered the senators Sarkozy came when the strike is placed at a critical level the number of stations closed as police charges grow tense.
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Intensifies protests in France and the fuel becomes scarce |
The Senate is a chamber in which Sarkozy's party has 149 MPs, while that radical leftists, socialists and communists together 157. Everything depends, therefore, the mixed group of senators and the Centrist Union, which brings together both sarkozyste senators as antisarkozystas , with a slight advantage for the latter. The situation is fluid and, given the pressure of the strike and the polls, their Lordships hinge underwent no rush to have Sarkozy to obtain the approval of the law .
The authorities recognize that refineries are out of gas 3,190
The chamber president, Gérard Larcher, a conservative who has been wrong with the president, refused to close shifts of floor to the opposition. Several hundred are currently discussing amendments, mostly presented by the left. The board has adopted the principle of holding night sessions if necessary. In fact, senators are discussing several nights almost until dawn.
The timing of Sarkozy is committed .
The president wants to get his Senate bill as soon as possible to go to the Joint Commission and return to the National Assembly for final approval on 26 or 27 October. The reason is this: the school holidays begin on Friday, Sarkozy hopes that the middle classes resting Street pressure disappears.
The first delay came to join calendar yesterday a second problem. Socialist and Communist senators were able to obtain the support of the center-left to launch a "solemn appeal" to Sarkozy to suspend the debate on his bill, bringing to 62 the legal age of retirement and age 67 the right to open 100% of basic pension.
60% of the French supported the continuation of the social movement
The support center was not something won in advance and bring a potentially disastrous consequences for Sarkozy: open bridges the senators Centrist Union and can tilt the hinge left. For France it is a pressure cooker. The strike by workers of the 12 refineries in the country, coupled with blocking operations of refineries and roads began to reach its cruising speed. The government, which took 24 hours to recognize, early last week that 4,000 petrol stations had closed suppliers refused to be caught again in the omission. The Ecology and Energy Minister, Jean-Louis Borloo, acknowledged yesterday that the country's 12,311 stations, 3,190 are without a single drop of fuel. And according to him, other 1700 "are in particular difficulty" . Borloo
multiplied reassuring messages, claiming that the shortage is "temporary" and that "the trucks are coming." This to dovetail with the message of Prime Minister François Fillon, who promised on Tuesday that the supply will be "normal in four or five days."
For the second consecutive day, Sarkozy reiterated yesterday the firm message by saying that he gave instructions to "unlock the full fuel tanks, and accusing the unions of" disorders they seek to create paralysis in the country ".
police pressure
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Young demonstrators fleeing a police charge during the riots yesterday in Lyon.PHILIPPE Desmaz / afp |
L you gendarmes and riot police stepped on the accelerator against the pickets to protect fuel tanks and refineries. The deposits of La Rochelle and Le Mans and the Donges refinery were evacuated. In the latter, the union response was immediate. Nothing more to be informed the coordinators of the CFDT-Transports mobilized 500 people to immediately cut off access roads. Sarkozy and returned to square one, and could only avoid the "game of cat and mouse with massive and decisive actions against civilians, public opinion would not tolerate.
Viavoice A new poll for Libération says that 69% of French-saprueba police actions against striking workers both as against students, and that despite the shortage of gasoline. 60% supported the continuation of the social movement, according to a survey.
Source: Communist Chacao, In Struggle. Http://pcvchacao-en lucha.blogspot.com http://www.publico.es/internacional/342562/el-senado-frances-pospone-la-reforma-ante-la-presion-social.
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