France’s far-left Insoumise (LFI), which led the left-wing coalition that won parliamentary elections, will take new legislative steps on Tuesday (23) to overturn President Emmanuel Macron’s contested pension changes and reverse the increase in the legal retirement age from 62 to 64, its top lawmaker said.
Cancelling the reform – which aims to protect state finances and boost productivity – is one of the main projects of the French left, which emerged as the strongest force in last month’s snap legislative elections, although it failed to secure a majority.
“Today we will present a legal proposal to cancel the pension reforms,” Mathilde Panot, who heads France Insoumise in the lower house of parliament, told France Inter radio.
The reform resulted in violent street protests last year due to widespread opposition from workers.
The LFI bill, which is unlikely to come to a vote before September, would need support from lawmakers outside the left-wing New Popular Front coalition to pass.
The right-wing National Rally party has also campaigned to lower the retirement age, while Macron’s centrist bloc and other center-right politicians have said they would oppose such a move.
France has been in a state of parliamentary deadlock since Macron’s decision to call elections, with the current government likely to serve through the summer in a caretaker capacity.
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Source: CNN Brasil
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