The French government has estimated that 963,000 people have taken to the streets throughout the country, while the union that called CGT, for its part, affirms that there have been 2.5 million. In either case, it would be the largest protest to date.
Nails 500,000 people have taken to the streets of Paris this Saturday, according to the General Confederation of Workers (CGT), in a new protest against the pension reform planned by the government of President Emmanuel Macron, a figure to which should be added the assistance to the approximately 240 protest calls throughout France.
According to data provided by the media Le Monde and France Info, the French government has estimated that 963,000 people have taken to the streets throughout the country, while the convening union CGT, for its part, affirms that there have been 2, 5 million. In either case, it would be the largest protest Until now.
In Baionabetween 15,000 and 20,000 people have taken to the streets in this fourth day of protests.
The unions had summoned “the entire population” to demonstrate this Saturday “even more massively” than last Tuesday, when some 757,000 people took to the streets throughout France, according to figures from the Ministry of the Interior, almost two million according to the unions. The stated goal is to “paralyze France” on March 7th.
The French Government continues to raise gradually raise the retirement age to 64 (two over the current 62) and increase the contribution period required to access the maximum pension. The text also removes specific privileges of certain groups.
However, the Government does not have a guaranteed majority to carry out a reform, which has received criticism from both sides of the political spectrum. The former presidential candidate of La Francia Insumisa (LFI), Jean-Luc Mélenchon, has called on the country’s president, Emmanuel Macron, to be “reasonable” and not “authoritarian”.
Source: Eitb
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