Basta! reported a legislative initiative by Renaissance MPs to open the possibility of work on 1 May, France’s statutory labor holiday. Union and labor voices opposed the proposal as an attack on a hard-won collective marker. The entry records the proposal and emerging opposition, not a claim that the law had passed.
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The April 2026 entry says the proposal to permit work on 1 May had already become law.
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It records a legislative initiative and opposition, not passage.