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7:11 p.m. : This proposal for a referendum of shared initiative (RIP) was carried by some 250 deputies and senators. It aimed to organize a consultation setting the legal retirement age at 62 and not beyond. After this rejection by the Constitutional Council, the left is betting on a next step in the National Assembly on June 8, the day of examination of a bill from the independent group Liot to repeal the disputed reform.
7:07 p.m. : Anticipating rallies after publication of the decision of the Elders, the Paris police headquarters banned undeclared demonstrations from 5 p.m. to 2 a.m., near the Constitutional Council.
7:07 p.m. : “The bill submitted to the Constitutional Council does not meet the conditions set by Article 11 of the Constitution and by Article 45-2 of Ordinance No. 58-1067 of 7 November 1958 establishing organic law on the Council constitutional”detail the Sages, who therefore consider this request non-compliant.
7:07 p.m. : The constitutionnal Council rejects the second request for a split initiative referendum (RIP) filed by the opposition against the pension reform.
5:49 p.m. : According to a decree of the Paris police headquarters, undeclared demonstrations are prohibited this evening, from 5 p.m. to 2 a.m., near the Constitutional Council.
5:44 p.m. : The Constitutional Council told franceinfo that it would publish its decision this evening, at 7 p.m., on the second draft referendum of shared initiative.
4:33 p.m. : Good morning @Eragon, we do not yet know the exact time at which this decision will be made by the Elders. One certainty: it will fall at the end of the day.
4:33 p.m. : Hello, do you know what time the Constitutional Council will make its decision on the second RIP? Thanks in advance
4:15 p.m. : According to information from franceinfo, the government is considering how it could propose this type of measure again, and in particular the creation of a “barricade building offence”.
4:13 p.m. : Many of you mentioned this anti-thug law that the government is preparing. Note that in 2019, the Constitutional Council had only validated part of the anti-breakers law. The Elders had censored the measure allowing prefects to issue administrative bans on demonstrations.
4:12 p.m. : Are the existing laws not enough to fight against thugs?
4:12 p.m. : Future anti-breakers law? One more ? Doesn’t one already exist?
3:32 p.m. : Social crisis, unpopularity of the Head of State, no absolute majority, casseroles…Emmanuel Macron seems isolated and not very audible.
How can he continue to rule?
This is the Talk debate at 6 p.m. on Twitch @franceinfo !
With @Paul_Barcelona And @AnthoBerthelier
1:06 p.m. : VICTOIRE ! Xavier Mathieu is free. No charge, no pursuit. This is the policy of @GDarmanin. The politics of shame. The politics of repression. State violence will not make the people give in. Shame on this violent government!
1:10 p.m. : Several LFI deputies, including Adrien Quatennens and Thomas Portes, have just announced the release of Xavier Mathieu. Union delegate of the CGT of the Continental AG factory in Clairoix (Oise) who became an actor, this figure of social mobilizations was arrested yesterday by the police.
12:37 : “Some do not come to demonstrate, but to kill.”
The government spokesman answered questions from journalists after the Council of Ministers this afternoon. He denounced incidents of a “exceptional violence” which occurred on Monday during the 1st of May.
11:03 am : @Gardav: The Minister of the Interior also affirms that the comptroller “exceeds its powers, especially when it denounces ‘an instrumentalization of police custody measures for repressive purposes'”. He recalls, in fact, that he returns to “the judicial authority [d’assurer] supervision of custody measures”.
10:53 : Good morning @Gardav. The Minister of the Interior disputes the reasoning of the controller of the places of deprivation of liberty and affirms that the search for evidence to establish individual responsibility during “collective scenes of violence” East “often hampered by the respondents experienced in investigative techniques”. For him, the fact that the judicial authority then considers the offenses “as insufficiently characterized” does not mean “by no means an absence of initial infringement”.
10:53 : Hello FI, in this beautiful weather, still no comment from our Minister of the Interior on the findings of Mrs. Simonnot? Can’t wait to read his justifications on the 80% of police custody without follow-up! Keep us posted. Thank you and good day.
09:29 : On June 8, the National Assembly will examine the Liot group’s bill to repeal the pension reform. Deputy (LR) Aurélien Pradié announces that he will vote in favor of the text.
(FRANCE 2)
09:13 : Faced with the damage to shops and clashes during the demonstrations, Bruno Le Maire affirms that “the authority must have the last word in our country”. “The freedom to demonstrate and express oneself [doit être] whole, but the breakage, the violence, the threat, landing in the shops, landing in the GA, it is intolerable and unacceptable”judges the Minister of the Economy.
(FRANCEINFO)
08:41 : “There is no credible alternative to our proposal. (…) The only reasonable solution is to apply this reform which has been decided, validated, promulgated.”
08:42 : Bruno Le Maire is the guest of franceinfo this morning. “The Constitutional Council will decide on the RIP, we will see what its decision will be”he says. “I can see all the obstacles that are put in the application of the pension reform. (…) This reform must be applied.”
(FRANCEINFO)
08:31 : “As the second RIP was filed even before the promulgation of the reform, it should in law, a priori, suffer the same consequences, that is to say be declared inadmissible. But it is the Constitutional Council that will say so .”
Both left and right parliamentarians do not believe in a positive decision by the Constitutional Council on the second request for a shared initiative referendum on the subject of pension reform. The court is due to render its decision today.
07:07 : A long-awaited decision. The Constitutional Council must decide today on a second request for a referendum of shared initiative. We explain to you why it may be refused.
(MAGALI COHEN / HANS LUCAS / AFP)
06:43 : In a letter sent to Gérald Darmanin, Dominique Simonnot calls on the Minister of the Interior to “vigilance”. She reminds him “Irequired to ensure compliance with the legislative and regulatory provisions applicable to the custody procedure”.
06:42 : “The instructions given by the police headquarters and the Paris public prosecutor’s office, as well as the dismissal of 80% of the procedures, reveal a massive recourse, as a preventive measure, to the deprivation of liberty for the purpose of maintaining public order.”
06:41 : “Some people have heard police officers decide at random, after trivial discussions, which offenses to hold against them. Pre-filled arrest forms were distributed to the officers.”
06:39 : Following these visits, the Comptroller General of places of deprivation of liberty reports “violent arrests”, “systematic searches in underwear”“unworthy hygiene conditions”, “insufficient individual spaces in collective cells” or “irregularities in the interpellation sheets”.
06:40 : On March 24 and 25, Dominique Simonnot and his teams visited “nine Parisian police stations to control the conditions of care for those arrested” during the demonstration on March 23.
(FRANCEINFO)
06:31 : The Comptroller General of Places of Deprivation of Liberty denounces “serious violations of fundamental rights”, during police custody of people arrested in Paris in demonstrations against the pension reform. She reports that there is a “use of police custody measures for repressive purposes”.