French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne plans to meet with opposition leaders and trade unions in the hope of ending weeks of protests against a new pension law, her office said on Sunday.
, which will raise the retirement age by two years, turned violent after the government pushed through the legislation this month without a final parliamentary vote.has ruled out scrapping or delaying the legislation, tasking his prime minister with finding fresh support in parliament after the government failed to find enough votes for the bill.
The prime minister added in an interview with AFP that the meetings with opposition and union leaders would take place in the week starting April 3. It is unclear if the government's attempt to draw a line under the pension crisis will calm a majority of the public hostile to the reform and demonstrators exasperated by the adoption of the legislation without a final vote.
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