For the eighth time since January, opponents of the pension reform proposed by French President Emmanuel Macron demonstrated, on Wednesday, in France , while parliamentarians are trying to find a settlement on this controversial text, and the government seems determined to pass it with or without a vote.

"I tell parliamentarians, do not vote on this law, it is divorced from the reality of work," said Laurent Berger, Secretary General of the CFDT union, before the start of the Paris demonstration in the afternoon.

Since January 19, millions of French people have demonstrated seven times to express their rejection of this reform, the main clause of which is to raise the legal retirement age from 62 to 64 years. This item is causing the most anger.

However, the government's position did not budge and it pursued a strategy to achieve approval of the bill at a rapid pace, using measures contained in the constitution to expedite parliamentary debate.

France is one of the European countries that adopts the lowest retirement age, although the retirement systems are not similar and cannot be completely compared.

In Marseille (south), 7 thousand people demonstrated on Wednesday, according to the police, and 160 thousand according to the union. On March 7, which was the peak of the mobilization, 30,000 demonstrators turned out, according to the police, and 245,000, according to the trade unions.

After demonstrations with record participation on the seventh of March and a day of mobilization that saw fewer numbers last Saturday, the Trade Union Front wants, with this new day of action, to have this effect once again on the vote of representatives, while the government does not have the required majority and therefore needs the support of the right.

Seven deputies and seven senators held a closed meeting in an attempt to reach agreement on the reform draft, which is inevitable before a final vote expected in the National Assembly on Thursday.

As expected, the parliamentarians adopted Article (7) of the bill, which stipulates postponing the legal age from 62 to 64 years. It is clear that the supporters of this amendment represent the majority in the formation of this committee.

The text is scheduled to be presented Thursday morning to the Senate, which is dominated by the right, for approval one last time, and uncertainty prevails about another vote in the afternoon in the National Assembly in light of the continuing divisions within the Republican Party (right).

"The government seeks more than ever that the natural majority supports this urgent and decisive reform of our country," government spokesman Olivier Ferrand said after the cabinet meeting.

This uncertainty may prompt the government to resort to a constitutional weapon known as Article 49.3, which allows the bill to be approved without a vote in Parliament. But she hopes that she will not be forced to use this measure, which may exacerbate the rejection of this reform, which is opposed by the majority of the French.

On the tenth day of the strike of garbage collection workers opposing this reform in the streets of Paris, waste is piling up in the capital of world tourism, as about seven thousand tons of waste accumulate in the streets of Paris, according to the municipality.

And there are no signs, in fact, of any improvement in this situation, as the cleaners and waste collectors of the municipality of Paris voted on Tuesday morning to continue their strike until at least March 20.

In parallel, extendable strikes continue in several major sectors, from transportation to energy, according to a trade union official.

Electricity generation in France decreased on Wednesday morning by 10,710 megawatts, the equivalent of ten nuclear reactors, according to the General Electricity Company.

The Palais de Bregançon, the official residence of the presidency in the south, suffered a power outage.

Regarding gas, employees of four LNG terminals and 11 storage sites renewed their strike until early next week.

Many refineries are still on strike Wednesday.

The movement of trains of the National Railway Company (SNCF) is still affected by the protests, and traffic remains disrupted on some roads in the north of the country.

Also, 20 percent of flights at Paris-Orly airport were canceled due to the air traffic controllers' strike.

In road transport, barriers are also erected in the country.

Emmanuel Macron, who was re-elected president in April 2022, risks a large part of his political capital on this text, which, according to the government, aims to respond to the financial deterioration in pension funds and the aging population.