King Charles has postponed his state visit to France as protests over President Macron’s pension reforms intensify across the country. NBC News’ Meagan Fitzgerald reports from Paris.
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Do you hear the people sing?
Singing a song of angry men?
It is the music of a people
Who will not be slaves again!
When the beating of your heart
Echoes the beating of the drums
There is a life about to start
When tomorrow comes!
Will you join in our crusade?
Who will be strong and stand with me?
Beyond the barricade
Is there a world you long to see?
Then join in the fight
That will give you the right to be free!
Do you hear the people sing?
Singing a song of angry men?
It is the music of a people
Who will not be slaves again!
When the beating of your heart
Echoes the beating of the drums
There is a life about to start
When tomorrow comes!
Will you give all you can give
So that our banner may advance
Some will fall and some will live
Will you stand up and take your chance?
The blood of the martyrs
Will water the meadows of France!
Do you hear the people sing?
Singing a song of angry men?
It is the music of a people
Who will not be slaves again!
When the beating of your heart
Echoes the beating of the drums
There is a life about to start
When tomorrow comes!
(Do you hear the people sing, Les Miserable)
in France, GOVERNMENT remember that the French beheaded the king with a guillotine, it still RESONATES. Seams to me that French know how to deal with their arrogant government playing with their benefits
Tear it all down!
Powe to the people!
Let him stay on the rock and mind own bizz…
The reforms are best for the country and its future, but i stand with the protestors. i wouldnt want a reform like that in my life either.
All this so Macron can help the globalist win in Ukraine. He’ll give Ukraine crooked politicians millions but Denys the pensions SMH
He is afraid of guillotines😂 Viva La France✊
บอกประชาชนทุกคน้นหน้ามารักกันสามัคคึกันจะดีกว่านะค้ั
ิอยากให้ประชาชนทุกคนใจเย็นนะค้ั
Viva freedom France!!!!!
Freedom!!!!! Macron Fool!!!!!!
The visit is needed even more now. The French will never be happy until they accept that Charles Duke of Normandy is by divine right King of France.
They don’t like royalty hopefully the uk gets rid of the royal family
https://youtu.be/zwzyfSd1PTA
Ils privatisent l'eau
I STAND with France 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 Vive La France👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
We FULLY support you people of France!!!!! Do not cave to tyranny! You earned those rights and reforms, don't you dare let the current government take it away now!!
He was coming for Biden and his 10% of that ss fund
its all muslims and africans breaking the windows and vandalizing in france –
Everyone has money for Ukraine but not for their own people hahaha
Whos gonna fall first Marcrooon or Putin? France or Russia?
Well, that worked itself out
Western countries are run by demonic grubs
Lol
King Charles visit is the LEAST or the French concerns at this point
City of Love? I think not.
It's clear he knows what they do to kings in France
NBC bought the videos we can watch everywhere on every media…
Macron is hated since the yellow vests.
He was reelected because media owned by billionaires, favorable to his policy in their favor, focused on war in Ukraine, during presidential campaign, and depicted his political opponents as pro-Poutine candidates.
Although main part of population was not dupe, people did not risk to elect candidate from the left, that had radical political proposals like adopting a new constitution. But they stood up against candidate from far right.
So, Macron lost his absolute majority as National Assembly. French National Assembly is split in 3 blocks.
United Left, Right dominated by Macron's party and Far Right.
System of pensions in France was part of social security at its creation, by a communist minister, in a transpartisan government, after WWII. It started as administrated by workers for workers for a a retirement at the age of 65.
But successive governments, from the Right, changed that to make it administrated by the state.
In 1981, the first president, from the Left, was elected with promise to lower age of retirement to 60.
At the beginning of the millennium, a government from the right changed age to 62.
Then, a government from the Left was elected and promised to take into account hardness of work during the whole career.
5 criteria of hardness were taken into account, allowing hard workers to retire sooner.
During if first mandate, Macron suppressed 2 criteria of hardness. Exposition to chemicals and wearing of heavy loads.
He tried to modify the system to make it by points accumulated according to career.
This first attempt failed because minister in charge had a conflict of interest, having parts and presence tokens in insurance companies.
For this second attempt, new minister in charge was also accused of corruption.
Motivations to proceed reform was different, each time, he spoke in media.
He promised a minimal pension of 1200€ for everybody.
An economist stood up to explain that was a lie.
There would be only an increase of 30 € for many pensions, that would stay under poverty threshold.
He also explained how reform was unfair to women.
Even, a politician from minor party of the right explained that all future generations would not be treated equally.
Police and senators pensions were left untouched by reform.
Government choose to pass reform as a budget bill relative to the year, not a structural bill, to be able to use 49.3.
Then, he used article 47.1 of constitution to limit time of debate of amendments, in National Assembly.
Left opposed 13000 amendments to avoid a vote on text in National Assembly.
So, text was only debated by Senate, dominated by party from the right that are minor at National Assembly.
In Senate, government used article 38 to suppress several amendments and article 43.3 to force adoptions or rejections of several amendments.
But at the end, National Assembly has to vote what was produced by Senate.
To avoid this, government used 49.3 that is forcing adoption of the bill, unless National Assembly agrees to destitute government.
Government was saved by 9 votes on a base of 577 deputes.
Unions were united in protestation, during months to avoid adoption of age modification.
Government refused to renounce on that point, although economists and unions proposed alternatives to stabilize financing of system.
French workers are impacted by inflation. Young people are worried about climate change.
Everybody agrees that there are more urgent problems to solve.
But, for Macron, that reform to please Larry Fink is its priority.
After months of protest of 70% of population, Macron went on TV to treat citizens as "factious" and opponents to reform as "irresponsible".
king chaz is the real daddy at the WEF
Every international politician should cancel their official visits to France and openly blame macron and his mafia for their shameless despise, horrendous conduct and violence towards the Nation and its people.
And it's not just about the pension system and the age of retirement : it's about the relentless destruction of our country. Macron destroys France, plain and simple.
They dislike the brit twit so much they protested?
King Charles, don't like kings here.
Who cares about Charles not being able to visit? Nobody thinks of him omg!
Militarized police purposely aimed and fired hardened rubber bullets at peaceful protesters during the original yellow vest protests in France. Macron (who slept with and later married his pedophile teacher) and his psychopaths in law enforcement intentionally shot out the eyes of beautiful young people peacefully protesting. The inbred King, first person to utter the phrase, "The Great Reset", should be removed from his position and his ill gotten assets seized and returned to the citizens from which they were stolen.
Upset because they may have to wait two more years for the hand out.
It would’ve been nice if King Charles conquered the French and lowered the age of retirement even though I’m one of the guys saying to raise the retirement age because people live to 100 nowadays 😁😁😁
❤ 🇫🇷 Vive Le France 🇫🇷 ❤
We should all learn from the French