French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne has planned to receive parliamentary groups and political parties, including the opposition, as well as representatives of collectives, in the week of April 3, with the aim “to bring calm to the country”, she said in an interview with AFP.

A schedule of possible meetings with trade unions and employers’ organizations is being drawn up next week, the prime minister said.

Demonstrations and violent incidents have rocked the country since the adoption on March 16, without a vote in the National Assembly, of the controversial reform to raise the retirement age. Two months after the start of mobilization against the law, a new day of protests is planned for Tuesday, with the government and unions warning of the risk of “chaos”.

“There must be appeasement,” Bourne said, while rejecting a request by the head of the CFDT, France’s first union, Laurent Berger, to suspend the implementation of the reform.

The reform was adopted and will “follow its course” until the Constitutional Council gives its opinion, at the end of which the president of the Republic “must issue the law”, as provided for in the Constitution, Born said.

Although the use of article 49.3 for the adoption of this reform sparked the protest movement, the Prime Minister wishes to no longer use this controversial article of the French Constitution, which allows the forced passage of the bill in the National Assembly, except for economic texts.

“The target I am setting for the future is not 49.3 except for economic texts,” he said.

Charged by President Emmanuel Macron to build a government program and a legislative program, Elizabeth Bourne clarifies that she will “develop” to do this an “action plan” in the next three weeks “which enlists all the actors who want to move forward (the country”.

“We really want to prioritize some issues so that we can quickly present concrete results to the French,” he stressed.