The French far-right leader, Marine Le Pen, announced today the presentation of a motion of censure against the Government for the way in which parliamentary work on the pension reform is being processed.
Le Pen, in statements to the press, explained that the presentation of the motion by his National Rally (RN) party seeks "a parliamentary referendum" on the project, given above all that the slowness of parliamentary debates may make it impossible to vote on the article 7 of the legislative project.
This article, which establishes the increase in the minimum retirement age from 62 to 64 years, is considered the most important of the reform.
However, this afternoon the deputies still had to discuss about 13,800 amendments to the legislative project, which makes it more than unlikely that the text can be seen in detail before Friday night, the 17th, when the constitutional deadline for the proposal to of the Executive pass from the National Assembly to the Senate.
Le Pen's announcement came a day before a new day of protests and demonstrations throughout France, the fifth in less than a month, against the government project, for which the unions expect a somewhat smaller mobilization than in the previous ones. .
The leaders of the main unions are scheduled to take part in a demonstration in Albi, a small historic city in the south-east of France, to stress that the protest movement is national in dimension - with some 200 marches and rallies planned for tomorrow, Thursday - and It is not something exclusively Parisian.
