France and the retirement crisis.. The street is threatened by a scenario

In addition to street protests, French President Emmanuel Macron is facing a crisis within the National Assembly (Parliament);  Where the leader of the parliamentary opposition, Marine Le Pen, announced the start of procedures paving the way for the withdrawal of confidence from the government, after its approval of the law to raise the retirement age without a vote in Parliament.

The cause of the crisis

 The writer specialized in political affairs, Muhammad Wamwasi, warns, in his interview with Sky News Arabia, from Paris, of the "return of the yellow vests scenario" to the streets, after the new changes, which included:

 Macron resorted to Constitutional Article 49.3, which allows the government to pass bills without submitting them to the National Assembly, to pass a bill raising the retirement age.

 The bill provides for raising the retirement age from 62 to 64. 

angry protests

 On Friday, the streets of France witnessed angry protests, in which demonstrators disrupted traffic in Paris, after hours of nightly protests in which thousands took to the Place de la Concorde and other cities.

 The army is forced to take to the streets of the capital to collect rubbish left by striking workers, and threatens an environmental disaster in one of the largest tourist cities.

The "yellow vest" scenario

 The "yellow vests" refer to a movement founded in 2018 protests against the "high cost of living and higher taxes".

 The movement organized demonstrations against Macron, during which sharp confrontations between protesters and policemen took place in the streets.

 The movement is among those calling for the current demonstrations organized by unions, protests against raising the retirement age.

 How do experts read the situation?

 Public opinion expert Antoine Presteel of the Jean-Jaurès Foundation told AFP that "Article 49.3 in the imagination of the French is synonymous with brutality, it is the feeling that the government is not listening."

Macron's coalition does not have a majority in parliament; This reinforces the assumptions that the opposition will be able to implement the "political isolation" of the president, according to observers.

 Immediately after Prime Minister Elizabeth Born announced, Thursday noon in Parliament, the resort to Article 49.3 to pass the retirement bill, Le Pen, leader of the National Alliance party, said that she would submit a motion of no confidence in the government.

 Wamwasi stressed that "Macron and the government will have to face the motion of no-confidence, especially since resorting to a constitutional article to pass the law without a vote in parliament means that they will not be able to mobilize a majority of deputies in favor of the law."

 Commenting on this scenario, Wamwasi said that Macron "is betting a lot of his political assets," especially since the passage of the law comes in a tense and heated atmosphere of street protests and union strikes, including in the sanitation sector.