Pensions: Borne reaches out to unions before a 10th round in the street on Tuesday

"I am at the disposal of the social partners. We have to find the right path: are these bilateral meetings, an inter-union? We have to put some appeasement. And that we can resume work on all these sites" of hardship, professional retraining etc., said the Prime Minister in an interview with AFP.

The head of government has planned a slot in her agenda to possibly receive trade union organizations and employers' organizations in the week of April 10.

Charged by Emmanuel Macron with building a government program and a legislative program, Elisabeth Borne also specifies that she will "deploy" to do this an "action plan" over the next three weeks "which mobilizes all the actors who want to advance (the) country".

During the week of April 3, she will receive parliamentary groups and political parties, including those of the opposition, as well as representatives of local authorities, with the aim of "appeasing the country" and "dialogue with all the actors on the method we want to put in place".

Ahead of these meetings, Emmanuel Macron will receive Elisabeth Borne and the executives of his majority on Monday - party leaders, ministers, parliamentarians - at the Elysée, in order to refine a strategy to try to get out of the crisis.

Because the challenge to the pension reform continued in several cities on Saturday, with processions bringing together a few hundred people. "Local gatherings" encouraged by the inter-union before a new big day of mobilization on Tuesday, with in particular a Parisian procession which will parade from Place de la République to Nation.

The IGPN seized of 17 investigations

In Ile-de-France, RER traffic promises to be "very disrupted" on Tuesday, with one in two trains on lines A and B, according to the RATP. In the metro, passenger frequencies will be reduced on most lines, some of which will close earlier than usual. SNCF traffic forecasts will be known on Monday.

In the capital, where garbage collectors have been on strike for more than 20 days, the volume of uncollected waste was down on Sunday with 7.828 tonnes still outstanding.

Several questions surround Tuesday's day of action. Will it follow in the wake of the previous one, marked by a rebound in mobilization, with between 1,09 million (Beauvau) and 3,5 million (CGT) participants?

And will there be new violence, in a very tense general climate, like the clashes around the basins this Saturday in Sainte-Soline, which left dozens of injured on the side of the police like demonstrators, with a member of the procession between life and death on Sunday?

The Council of Europe was alarmed by an "excessive use of force" and the criticisms focus on the BRAV-M, a motorcycle unit responsible for maintaining order in the capital and whose dissolution is "not on the agenda", according to the prefect of police Laurent Nuñez.

In total, the General Inspectorate of the National Police (IGPN) has been seized of 17 judicial investigations since the first national day of mobilization against the pension reform in January, its director said on Sunday.

"Will of Disorder"

Faced with this general hardening, the power blames some of its opponents.

"Those who today fire mortars and try to set fire to" public buildings, "have a desire for disorder", said Sunday the Minister of Labor, Olivier Dussopt, during the political program of France Inter / France Televisions and The World.

"These are people who respect nothing, certainly not human life", added the President of the National Assembly, Yaël Braun-Pivet, evoking on the set of the Grand Jury RTL / Le Figaro / LCI the "abominable" threats that she and other majority elected representatives have received recently.

"Those who protest are angry, we need to hear them," said government spokesman Olivier Véran in the Sunday newspaper. Nothing to do with "the rebels who come to sow chaos in the country".

Argument returned by the secretary general of the CFDT, Laurent Berger, who recalls in an interview with the magazine Le Grand Continent that the pension reform aims to generate "barely 10 billion euros in savings" and judges "absurd to risk to plunge France into chaos for so little".

The president of the National Rally, Jordan Bardella, for his part accused the executive of "speculating on violence". And Jean-Luc Mélenchon asked for the "withdrawal" or a "overhaul" of the pension reform and the departure of the Prime Minister to get out of the political crisis.