Marine Le Pen said President Macron is a “pyromaniac” who has set fire to French democracy after he signed his pension reforms into law.
since the 2018 Yellow Vest protests against his plans to impose climate taxes on the public. Aside from the controversial pension reform, the French public has been suffering under economic hardship for years following the Chinese coronavirus crisis and the ensuing draconian lockdowns of Macron’s government.
As a result of the fallout from the Wuhan virus in conjunction with the war in Ukraine, France has seen food inflation soar by 15 per cent over the past year, leading to one in four of the nation’s poorest peopleIn addition to Le Pen, François Ruffin, a leading member of the leftist La France Insoumise group in the National Assembly, also took aim at Macron for signing the legislation into law overnight.
“Like thieves, Emmanuel Macron and his gang promulgated their pension law in the middle of the night. Because they know it well: what they have just done is a democratic hold-up,” RuffinThe trade unions, which have been a leading force in staging the nationwide protests, have also vowed to continue their actions despite the reforms being signed into law, with the CGT trade confederation saying in a statement: “The nocturnal promulgation of the law does not change our fight at all.
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