2023-05-01 12:33:00
Written by: Hana Abu Al-Ezz
Monday, May 01, 2023 03:33 PM
On Monday followingnoon, demonstrations and marches took place in several French cities, during the thirteenth day of demonstrations across France, at the call of the trade unions, who pledged that it would be a historic and exceptional day to demonstrate once morest Pension Reform Act.
During the celebration of “Labour Day”, which the trade union pledged would be a “historic day”, with a large number of demonstrators gathering, many citizens in the city of “Toulouse” in southwestern France organized mass rallies, and the number of demonstrators was estimated at regarding one hundred thousand people, according to unions, while the French police registered 13,500 demonstrators.
On Friday evening, April 14, the Constitutional Council approved the most important articles of the retirement law, which is Article 7, which provides for raising the retirement age from 62 to 64 years by 2030, an article that is not very popular in the French street. It also approved other articles included in the new law, while rejecting six articles, including those related to the employment contract for the elderly.
Soon following, French President Emmanuel Macron issued a decree reforming the retirement system officially, a few hours following the Constitutional Council’s approval, and the decision was published in the Official Gazette the next morning, Saturday, April 15, and then announced in a televised speech that the law will enter into force as of next fall. To turn the page of the retirement law, announcing other reform projects that the country will witness in the coming period.
This was supposed to end a wave of anger that lasted for more than three months, but the trade union pledged to continue the demonstrations, and set the date for May 1, which corresponds to “Labor Day”, for mass demonstrations across the country, hoping for “historic mobilization” in protest once morest the issuance of formal law.
It is expected that between 500,000 and 650,000 people will participate in 300 marches that will take place across France, which is a record number compared to what was recorded in the past mass rallies. Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin announced the mobilization of 12,000 police and gendarmerie personnel, including 5,000 In Paris .
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