Le Front populaire propose une augmentation du SMIC

The Popular Front proposes an increase in the minimum wage

France

The retirement law at 64 years old that is making too much noise in France, proposed by French President Emanuel Macron, at the beginning of the year voted by the presidential majority in the Assembly, and here is the Popular Front, which proposes through Lucie Castets, a decree to postpone the application of the latter and to review the law. The senior civil servant of the city of Paris promises that her government will present “a bill” of repeal in good and due form in a second phase. Postpone by decree the application of retirement at 64 years old and increase the minimum wage.
The candidate of the New Popular Front for Matignon, Lucie Castets, developed, on Thursday, her first actions as Prime Minister, promising to go through consultation and the search for majorities “project by project”.
On pensions, a decree will first allow the implementation to be postponed “so that the generations that were to be affected by the application of this reform are not immediately affected,” explained the 37-year-old senior civil servant at Paris City Hall, ensuring that, subsequently, her government would present “a bill” for repeal in due form.

59% of French people in favor of a political truce
Proposed by Emanuel Macron, a political truce during the Olympic Games, finally the majority of French people are in favor of this idea, “let the Olympic Games finish and then the head of state will make a decision.”
Nearly six out of ten French people believe that Emmanuel Macron should not appoint the NFP candidate, according to a survey. Conversely, 41% of those surveyed believe that the president should instruct Lucie Castets to form a government, according to a study, for a majority of those surveyed (72%), the Macronist bloc, the left and right parties will not be able to agree to form a stable government. Finally, 59% of French people are in favor of “a political truce” during the Olympic Games, as the head of state wishes.
Knowing that the left is maintaining pressure on Emmanuel Macron to appoint its candidate, Lucie Castets, to Matignon. The latter has begun to detail her first measures, promising upon her arrival at Matignon to sign a decree postponing the implementation of the reform raising the legal retirement age to 64.

The PS seizes the Council of State
The Socialist Party appeals to the Council of State. In a letter addressed to the vice-president of the Council of State and published on X, Olivier Faure questions the legality of the decisions taken by the resigning government.
According to the First Secretary of the PS, “this situation is unprecedented”, because, he continues, “never to our knowledge has a government had to manage current affairs for so long”. “In these conditions, we can legitimately ask questions”, he adds, denouncing “an abuse of power according to the first leader of the PS”.
From Marseille, Samir Sabek