Protests and strikes have been going on for several months in response to
针对法国总统埃马纽埃尔·马克龙改变退休年龄的提议,
French President Emmanuel Macron's proposal to change the retirement age.
抗议和罢工已经持续了几个月。
Because of the country's lower birth rate and longer life expectancies,
由于出生率较低,预期寿命较长,
the current pension system is projected to face a shortfall.
目前的养老金体系预计将面临短缺。
Macron's proposal is to raise the entire retirement age from 62 to 64.
马克龙的提议是将退休年龄从62岁提高到64岁。
Originally, the proposal passed through France's Senate.
最初,该提案被法国参议院通过。
There was concern over whether or not they had the majority or the votes to pass it through the lower chamber.
有人担心他们是否拥有多数选票在下议院通过该法案。
So Macron prompt Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne to invoke Article 49.3 of the Constitution,
因此,马克龙敦促总理伊丽莎白·伯恩援引宪法第49.3条,
which allows them to bypass the vote by the lower chamber.
该条款允许他们绕过下议院的投票。
Essentially, the president was able to just kind of push that forward by invoking that constitutional rule.
本质上,总统能够通过援引宪法规则来推动这一进程。
Because of the way that this legislation was passed through Parliament,
由于这项立法通过议会的方式,
not even passed, bypassed Parliament, I think it reignited a lot of anger and frustration.
甚至不是通过,而是绕过议会,我认为它重新点燃了群众的愤怒和沮丧。
Sanitation and garbage workers are on strike, so therefore they're not picking up the trash.
环卫和垃圾工人正在罢工,所以他们没有捡垃圾。
There's fires being burned outside of streetside cafes.
街边咖啡馆外面燃起了大火。
They are also just kind of peaceful protests and demonstrations,
他们也只是进行一种和平的抗议和示威,
but it's kind of been a mixed bag of what you're getting over the last couple of months.
但在过去的几个月里,你结果就是一团乱麻。
Polls have showed that the majority of French people oppose this plan,
民意调查显示,大多数法国人反对这项计划,
and they've also questioned why the reform couldn't have been,
他们还质疑为什么
you know, an increased tax on the wealthy or an increased payroll tax on employers.
改革不能对富人增税或对雇主增税。
This was a key initiative that French President Emmanuel Macron was trying to achieve.
这是法国总统马克龙试图实现的一项关键举措。
So it's likely that he doesn't back down.
所以他很可能不会让步。
So I think we're going to see the French people really revolt against this for quite a little bit.
所以我认为我们将会看到法国人民在相当长一段时间内坚持反对这一政策。