Marches in France calling for withdrawal from pension reform

Photos: Eliana Pinheiro

At the invitation of the country’s main unions, gathered at the Intersindical, workers from various sectors, young people and pensioners flaunted giant balloons, banners and slogans for the seventh time since January 19, without giving the executive any sign of giving up. its location.

In this capital, the protests were led by the general secretaries of the General Confederation of Workers (CGT) and the French Democratic Confederation of Labor (CFDT), Philippe Martinez and Laurent Berger, respectively, two unions with positions that usually do not coincide, but which are still united against reform.

The demonstrations echoed criticism of President Emmanuel Macron for “ignoring” the demands of unions and the majority of French people and for refusing to extend the retirement age.

More than a million people took to the streets on Saturday, according to the CGT, 300,000 in Paris, figures far from the 3,500,000 estimated by the organization on March 7.

For its part, the Ministry of the Interior estimated 368 thousand participants, 48 ​​thousand in the capital.

Intersindical has already called a new protest on March 15, ahead of the executive branch’s decision to keep its bill, which will finish research this weekend in the Senate.

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