[Iran Press TV] Pierre Moscovici, a Socialist politician in La Belle France, has branded President Nicolas Sarkozy's reform plans as irresponsible, saying he will pay the price at the 2012 elections.M. Moskvich would of course have done ever so much better, solving le problemme in a trice...
Moscovici said the main reason behind the recent protests against Sarkozy's pension reform plans was the high rate of dissatisfaction with his policies.
... pension reform being one of those policies...
He also said that students have joined the protests because the future of the youth has not been planned properly in France, AFP reported.
The yoots are incapable of planning their own futures, natch...
Senator Jean-Pierre Bel also voiced concern over the reform plans and said, "There has been an accumulation of worries, and bitterness, of disappointment and despair.
And woe. Don't forget the woe.
"And I think that Nicolas Sarkozy will keep hearing about the pension reform, it is going to stick to him, and it will still be an issue in the coming weeks and months."
Sarkozy has warned that "troublemakers" using violence in the pension protests would be pursued and punished. "They will be stopped, tracked down and punished, in Lyon and anywhere else, with no weakness, because in our democracy, there are many ways to express yourself. But violence is the most cowardly, the most gratuitous, and that is not acceptable," said the French president.
... unless you're setting fire to cars for fun on a Friday night...
He also ordered police to reopen all the blocked fuel depots on Wednesday. "If this disorder is not ended quickly, the attempt to paralyze the country could have consequences for jobs by disrupting the normal functioning of the economy," Sarkozy stated.
Nearly a third of France's petrol stations have run dry as a result of the blockades. Union workers have called the strikes in a bid to oppose the controversial pension reform plan which would raise the minimum retirement age from 60 to 62 and the full state pension age from 65 to 67.
The French General Confederation of Labor says the people now want the president to step down.
"Yeah! Let our guy take over!"
And you thought the Socialists had given up when they lost the last election, eh ...
Sarkozy, however, has vowed to push ahead with his reform plans, saying that his party will pass the bill in a senate vote scheduled for Thursday.
Nearly 2,000 protesters have been reportedly detained across France over the past week.
"Into the paddy wagon wit' vous!"