In Iparralde, transportation and education have been the most affected sectors. In the state, the information services of the police anticipate between 1 and 1.2 million demonstrators in the around 240 organized demonstrations.
One day after the pension reform of the French president, Emmanuel Macron, will begin its parliamentary process, the second day of general strikeafter the held January 19. The unions hope that the mobilizations on Tuesday will be more numerous and thus demonstrate the strength of popular opinion.
In Ipar Basque Country, the most affected sectors have been transportation and education. In fact, in Baiona some 17,000 people have gathered in the demonstration according to the organizing unions. The Police have also recognized that they have been more numerous than two weeks ago, when all records were broken (reaching the mobilization of some 10,000 people according to the CGT union). The conveners have received the support of youth associations and Hego Euskal Herria pensioners.
In the Nueva Aquitaine department, only one in three high-speed trains are running. At Biarritz Airport, round-trip flights to Lyon have been suspended, and more cancellations are expected, so it is recommended to consult the websites of the different companies. In Education, 30% of teachers have supported the strike in the department.
In it french state, the incidence of the strike has been noticed mainly in the transport and energy sector according to the French Government. They have also reported that in Education the follow-up has been between 25 and 30%.
Likewise, the streets of Paris have been filled with demonstrators protesting about this pension reform.
Police information services have leaked to the media that anticipate between 1 and 1.2 million protesters in the around 260 gears organized, figures similar to those of the first mobilization.
To try to avoid disturbances of public order, the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, has announced that they will deploy 4000 policemen and gendarmes in Paris and 11,000 in total throughout the state, which means 1,000 more than in the protest on the 19th.
Darmanin, who has warned that “those who attack the agents or the demonstrators will be arrested”, has underlined the collaboration with the unions’ order services and has said that he hopes that the demonstrations will take place “under the same conditions”. that on the first day of protest, “no notable serious incidents”.
The unions intend with this day of mobilizations to force the Government to withdraw its reform, which foresees delay the minimum retirement age from 62 to 64 years Y advance to 2027 the extension to 43 years (currently 42) of the listing period necessary to collect a full pension.
The majority of public opinion is against the reform, as all the polls repeatedly show, the left-wing parties, the extreme right and even some conservative deputies from Los Republicanos, the party that Macron hopes to rely on to be able to approve his bill.
Source: Eitb
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