First off, a general update on the pension reform protests in France.
Nothing much is happening that is newsworthy, strikes are still going on as “days of action” as a show of force, to show that the movement’s ability to mobilize is there.
But the general strike and its total paralysis is postponed to after the constitutional council’s (kind of our supreme court) analysis of the law.
The idea being that putting pressure on them could make them reject the law on a procedural issue (it was forced through the parliament with a mechanism that is designed for budgetary laws, not structural laws).
If they do, then Macron can either do nothing and look like a bitch, make it a referendum matter and probably look like a bitch, or dissolve the parliament hoping to get a new majority and some legitimacy from new elections which is dangerous for reasons I will go into in more details later.
If they don’t, then general strike it is, those have never failed to make the government capitulate in France, a general strike is the nuclear option, Macron being very stubborn, he probably will try to hold the line and I have no idea how far it can go in that case ^^
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