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The protests are not stopping, we just have different views on how to proceed, we still think that demonstrating is not enough ... we have to ramp it up ... we need a strong day of public and private sector strikes.

October 23, 2010 (Hamsayeh.Net) - The French Senate with supports from Sarkozy administration has finally approved controversial pension reform bill on Friday as a sign of growing tensions against oppositions' rightful demands.

In the Senate the bill was passed with 177 voting in favor and 153 voting against it. Meanwhile the bill would become effective when the joint parliamentarian and constitutional council convene to finalize its text. ‘It is not by hanging on symbols of the past that we will remain a great nation,’ Eric Woerth, the labor minister in charge of pushing the reform, said in a speech to the Senate shortly before the vote, as reported by Reuters.

Labor union leaders vowed to continue protests against the bill. ‘The protests are not stopping, we just have different views on how to proceed, we still think that demonstrating is not enough ... we have to ramp it up ... we need a strong day of public and private sector strikes, ‘ said Jean-Claude Mailly, head of the more radical Force Ouvriere union told RMC radio.

Right-wing government headed by Nicolas Sarkozy has pushed for an unpopular austerity measure that aims at working and middle class sectors of society in France. The same administration however provides incentives for rich bureaucrats, corporate elitists including luxury tax benefits and safe heavens.

Government officials claim the measures are needed in order to cut down the deficit, but they fail to mention that such deficit was accumulated because consecutive administrations followed US – neocon financial recipes at the time of illegal Iraqi invasion in 2001.

Neocons had calculated that soon after the invasion of oil-rich Iraq, Western countries should be able to inundate the market with massive quantities of oil whereby initiating another export-driven industrial renaissance that could have benefited western economies enormously. That same plan would have also been able to dictate terms on Asia’s emerging giants if it had gone according to initial forecasts.

Labor union leaders vowed to continue protests against the controversial bill.