Skip to content

Corruption Ledger

The Public Ledger of Corruption

  • About
  • Corruption
    • banks
    • corporate
    • environment
    • government
    • health
    • Leaks
    • misinformation
    • privacy and surveillance
    • Protest and Unrest
  • Sanctions
    • Sanctions News
    • Global Sanctions Feed
    • European Sanctions Feed
    • Canadian Sanctions Feed
    • US Sanctions Feed
  • Regions
    • Asias
    • Europe
    • Middle East
    • Oceania
    • US & Canada
    • World
  • Enforcement
  • Economy
  • International Conflict
  • Tech
  • Cryptocurrency
  • Free Speech
  • Toggle search form
  • Wells Fargo fined for sanctions breach _enforcement
  • Google Co-Founder, Other Billionaires Are Issued Subpoenas in Lawsuit Over JPMorgan’s Ties to Jeffrey Epstein; Sergey Brin, Thomas Pritzker, Mortimer Zuckerman and Michael Ovitz are asked for information in U.S. Virgin Islands’ civil suit against bank All Regions
  • Chinese businessman Guo Wengui seeks bail in $1 billion fraud case All Regions
  • IMF approves $15.6 billion Ukraine loan, part of $115 billion in global support All Regions
  • Russian preventive strike ‘petition’ possible after Ukrainian nuke plea -ITAR-TASS All Regions
  • Dominion’s Fox News defamation case headed to trial All Regions
  • Pussy Riot Member Accused of ‘Insulting Religious Sensibilities’, adds her to wanted list All Regions
  • Finland Clears Last Obstacle to NATO Entry All Regions

Violent protests in France over Macron’s retirement age push

Posted on March 17, 2023March 22, 2023 By 4am Research No Comments on Violent protests in France over Macron’s retirement age push
Pallets burn as protesters demonstrate at Concorde square near the National Assembly in Paris, Thursday, March 16, 2023. French President Emmanuel Macron has shunned parliament and opted to push through a highly unpopular bill that would raise the retirement age from 62 to 64 by triggering a special constitutional power. (AP Photo/Thomas Padilla)

Angry protesters took to the streets in Paris and other cities for a second day on Friday, trying to pressure lawmakers to bring down French President Emmanuel Macron’s government and doom the unpopular retirement age increase he’s trying to impose without a vote in the National Assembly.

A day after Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne invoked a special constitutional power to skirt a vote in the chaotic lower chamber, lawmakers on the right and left filed no-confidence motions to be voted on Monday.

At the elegant Place de Concorde, a festive protest by several thousand, with chants, dancing and a huge bonfire, degenerated into a scene echoing the night before. Riot police charged and threw tear gas to empty the huge square across from the National Assembly after troublemakers climbed scaffolding on a renovation site, arming themselves with wood. They lobbed fireworks and paving stones at police in a standoff.

On Thursday night, security forces charged and used water cannons to evacuate the area, and small groups then set street fires in chic neighborhoods nearby. French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin told radio station RTL that 310 people were arrested overnight, most of them in Paris.

Mostly small, scattered protests were held in cities around France, from a march in Bordeaux to a rally in Toulouse. Port officers in Calais temporarily stopped ferries from crossing the English Channel to Dover. Some university campuses in Paris were blocked and protesters occupied a high-traffic ring road around the French capital.

Paris garbage collectors extended their strike for a 12th day, with piles of foul-smelling rubbish growing daily in the French capital. Striking sanitation workers continued to block Europe’s largest incineration site and two other sites that treat Paris garbage.

Some yellow vest activists, who mounted formidable protests against Macron’s economic policies during his first term, were among those who relayed Friday’s Paris protest on social media. Police say that “radicalized yellow vests” are among troublemakers at protest marches.

Trade unions organizing the opposition urged demonstrators to remain peaceful during more strikes and marches in the days ahead. They have called on people to leave schools, factories, refineries and other workplaces to force Macron to abandon his plan to make the French to work two more years, until 64, before receiving a full pension.

Macron took a calculated risk ordering Borne to invoke a special constitutional power that she had used 10 times before without triggering such an outpouring of anger.

If the no-confidence votes fail, the bill becomes law. If a majority agrees, it would spell the end of the retirement reform plan and force the government to resign, although Macron could always reappoint Borne to name the new Cabinet.

“We are not going to stop,” CGT union representative Régis Vieceli told The Associated Press on Friday. He said overwhelming the streets with discontent and refusing to continue working is “the only way that we will get them to back down.”

Macron has made the proposed pension changes the key priority of his second term, arguing that reform is needed to make the French economy more competitive and to keep the pension system from diving into deficit. France, like many richer nations, faces lower birth rates and longer life expectancy.

Macron’s conservative allies in the Senate passed the bill, but frantic counts of lower-house lawmakers Thursday showed a slight risk it would fall short of a majority, so Macron decided to invoke the constitution’s Article 49-3 to bypass a vote.

Getting a no-confidence motion to pass will be challenging — none have succeeded since 1962, and Macron’s centrist alliance still has the most seats in the National Assembly. A minority of conservatives could stray from the Republicans party line, but it remains to be seen whether they’re willing to bring down Macron’s government.

Associated Press reporters Elaine Ganley, Alex Turnbull and Nicolas Garriga in Paris contributed to this report.

https://japantoday.com/category/world/anger-spreads-in-france-over-macron%27s-retirement-bill-push

All Regions, corporate corruption, Corruption, Economy, government corruption, Protest and Unrest, Region Asias, Region Europe, Spotlight, x.japanToday Tags:z.japanToday

Post navigation

Previous Post: International court issues war crimes warrant for Putin
Next Post: SVB parent company files for bankruptcy

See also

  • Full Tucker Carlson video: White House slams Fox News host Carlson over Jan 6 segment All Regions
  • Financial Worries on the rise in the US, Gallup Poll All Regions
  • China purging ‘Western erroneous views’ from legal education Corruption
  • Russia surrounds Bakhmut as Ukraine sends in troops All Regions
  • Sanctions Updates: Russia All Regions
  • Ukraine war latest: Fierce fighting rages over central Bakhmut as Russia’s Wagner mercenaries storm into the ruined city All Regions

You must log in to post a comment.

  • Wells Fargo fined for sanctions breach
  • Google Co-Founder, Other Billionaires Are Issued Subpoenas in Lawsuit Over JPMorgan’s Ties to Jeffrey Epstein; Sergey Brin, Thomas Pritzker, Mortimer Zuckerman and Michael Ovitz are asked for information in U.S. Virgin Islands’ civil suit against bank
  • Chinese businessman Guo Wengui seeks bail in $1 billion fraud case
  • IMF approves $15.6 billion Ukraine loan, part of $115 billion in global support
  • Dominion’s Fox News defamation case headed to trial
  • Pussy Riot Member Accused of ‘Insulting Religious Sensibilities’, adds her to wanted list
  • Russian preventive strike ‘petition’ possible after Ukrainian nuke plea -ITAR-TASS
  • Finland Clears Last Obstacle to NATO Entry
  • Macron announces water saving plan; says protests will not stop reforms
  • Kremlin comments on WSJ correspondent arrest
  • Minnesota derailment spills ethanol, prompts evacuations
  • Deutsche Bank Stock Tumbles On Contagion Fears
  • Wall St falls as bank contagion fears flare up
  • US due diligence firm Mintz Group says staff detained in China after office raid
  • Credit Suisse, UBS facing US Russia-sanctions probe, subpoenas also sent to employees major US banks
  • (US) Appeals court sides with Justice Department in Trump lawyer fight
  • Russia boosts defenses near Japan; accuses U.S. of expanding Asia-Pacific presence
  • US credit card debt at record high as Fed raises rates again
  • Russian tech giants appeal Nasdaq delisting
  • China Denounces Submarine Deal
  • China insists it is impartial on Russia-Ukraine, questions US ‘pouring weapons into the conflict’
  • German ambassador confirms that Putin would be arrested if he entered Germany
  • Danish Navy present near Nord Stream 2 – media
  • Railroad reluctant to say who OK’d chemical burn after Ohio derailment
  • Scientists insist on continuing search for toxics in East Palestine
  • Top aide of Canadian PM Trudeau will testify in parliament on Chinese election meddling
  • Zuckerberg, Meta sued for failing to address sex trafficking, child exploitation
  • Norfolk Southern: Independent group finds toxic chemicals that Ohio EPA didn’t – Ohio train derailment (East Palestine)
  • JP Morgan, Deutsche Bank to face lawsuit over Epstein ties
  • Putin announces readiness to switch to the Chinese Yuan currency in foreign trade
  • Putin and Xi sign two documents in Moscow
  • Russia says jet scrambled as US B-52 bombers fly over Baltic Sea
  • Paris police, protesters clash for third night over Macron’s pension reform
  • Global / ChipMixer software ‘taken down’ by multi-national law enforcement coalition
  • Russian officials scoff at ICC’s indictment of Putin
  • SVB parent company files for bankruptcy
  • International court issues war crimes warrant for Putin
  • US / Chinese tycoon and Bannon ally Guo Wengui charged with $1bn fraud
  • Samsung to invest $230 billion to build mega chip cluster
  • Pentagon calls Moscow over drone incident
  • Credit Suisse slump renews fears of global banking crisis
  • Silicon Valley Bank execs, parent company sued after collapse
  • Credit Suisse Shares Plunge as Bank Storm Spreads to Europe
  • Dow tumbles nearly 500 points as Credit Suisse stokes fears of bank failure contagion
  • Russian jet, US drone crash over Black Sea, US military says
  • Dark hours for Credit Suisse Bank
  • Account full of holes at Credit Suisse
  • Russia blasts Canada over ‘regime change’
  • US / Sterling Bancorp, Inc. to Plead Guilty to $69M Securities Fraud
  • US drones have no business near Russia – ambassador
  • Inflation in Argentina surges past 100 percent in historic spike
  • Paris visitors alarmed at trash strike
  • China says AUKUS on ‘dangerous path’ with nuclear subs deal
  • Taiwan unveils portable attack drone as China tensions rise
  • Putin rejects theory about Ukrainian role in pipeline blasts
  • Syrian president Assad arrives in Moscow, set to meet Putin
  • Marin’s F-18 proposal fizzles, as a new Finnish NATO tack emerges
  • Ohio sues Norfolk Southern over toxic train derailment
  • US / ‘Forever chemicals’ in drinking water
  • Nord Stream blasts staged by a state-level actor – Putin
  • No Harvey Weinstein retrial on rape, sex assault charges
  • US / Silicon Valley Bank execs, parent company sued after collapse
  • As U.S. steps back from Middle East, China steps in
  • Western sanctions shielding Russian financial system from global crisis – Kremlin
  • Moody’s puts US banks on notice
  • Robert Kiyosaki predicts next big bank to fold
  • UK $6 billion defense boost targets atomic submarines, weapons top-up
  • BBC gets £20 million boost from UK govt
  • Document reveals why Canada arms Saudi Arabia – media
  • Taiwan braces for ‘total blockade’ – media
  • Biden administration lets Ukrainians who fled war stay in US
  • Ratings Deceit: S&P sued for deceitful CDO ratings
Rumble Video

Corruption Ledger Follow

The Public ▇▇▇ Ledger of ▇▇▇ Corruption. https://t.co/wkobrEotQR

5amResearch
Corruption Ledger @5amresearch ·
10 Feb

News Coverage of the September 2022 #NordStream Pipeline Attack https://corruptionledger.com/news-coverage-of-the-september-2022-nord-stream-pipeline-attack/ via @5amResearch

Reply on Twitter 1623868066818928641 Retweet on Twitter 1623868066818928641 Like on Twitter 1623868066818928641
Corruption Ledger @5amresearch ·
10 Feb

Mia Jankowicz of Business Insider calls Pulitzer prize-winning journalist Seymore Harsh a "discredited journalist." #NordStream

Reply on Twitter 1623857264086974464 Retweet on Twitter 1623857264086974464 Like on Twitter 1623857264086974464 1
Corruption Ledger @5amresearch ·
9 Feb

#Kraken to Discontinue Unregistered Offer and Sale of Crypto Asset Staking-As-A-Service Program and Pay $30 Million to Settle SEC Charges
https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2023-25

Reply on Twitter 1623815305452560384 Retweet on Twitter 1623815305452560384 Like on Twitter 1623815305452560384
Corruption Ledger @5amresearch ·
9 Feb

SpaceX: Ukraine breaching agreement, weaponizing Starlink https://en.mdn.tv/71FW

Reply on Twitter 1623685510496505860 Retweet on Twitter 1623685510496505860 Like on Twitter 1623685510496505860
Load More

–

  • Register
  • Log in
  • Entries feed
  • Comments feed
  • WordPress.org

Copyright © 2022 Corruption Ledger. This web site contains no ads.