LIVE – May 1 demonstrations: first processions expected this morning in France

2023-05-01 04:11:43

Departure this morning for the Nantes and Rennes processions

If the Parisian demonstration on May 1 will not start before 2 p.m., other processions will start well before: this is the case in Rennes and Nantes, where departures are scheduled respectively at 10 a.m. and 10 a.m. 30.

The CFDT will discuss with the Prime Minister if she is invited, assures Berger

The CFDT “will discuss” with the Prime Minister if she is invited to do so, despite the persistent disagreement on the pension reform and whatever the format envisaged, assured its secretary general, Laurent Berger, on Sunday.

Matignon said on Friday that Elisabeth Borne would send invitations to the unions next week to try to renew the dialogue, meetings which could take place bilaterally.

“If we have an invitation, we will go and discuss”, and this “in the format that it will decide”, indicated Laurent Berger, who was the guest of the LCI-RTL-Le Figaro grand jury, but with prerequisites “in in terms of method and in terms of substantive topics”.

The Paris police chief expects “several thousand ultras at risk”

The prefect of police of Paris Laurent Nunez indicated this Saturday on BFMTV to expect to see “several thousand ultra people at risk” on the occasion of May Day demonstration next Monday.

“Obviously we expect a lot of risky elements for May Day,” he said.

He evokes “several thousand ultra-at-risk people who will seek to fight it out, probably to break windows, attack the police and who will seek to prevent the union procession from progressing”, specifies-t- he.

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Several metro stations closed in Paris for the demonstration of May 1

While the unions hope for a historic mobilization against the pension reform this Monday, May 1, the Paris police headquarters asked for the closure of seven metro stations on the route of the procession.

The République station, from where the demonstration must start around 2 p.m., will thus be closed from 11 a.m. indicates the RATP. The trains of lines 3 5, 8, 9 and 11, which normally serve this station, will not mark the stop.

On lines 5 and 8, Oberkampf station will also be closed from the end of the morning. On line 9, the Saint-Ambroise, Voltaire, Charonne and Rue des Boulets stations will also be closed.

Line 8 will not stop at the Filles du Calvaire station either.

The secretary general of the CFDT Laurent Berger promises “one of the biggest May Days of the last 30 or 40 years”

Guest of the LCI-RTL-Le Figaro jury this Sunday, April 30, Laurent Berger declared that “May 1st is going to be one of the biggest May 1sts on the social question of the last 30 or 40 years”, estimating that a million people are expected to move.

Earlier in April, the leader of the CFDT had called for “breaking the house” during the demonstration scheduled for May 1 for Labor Day, which will be an opportunity for the unions toshow their opposition to the pension reform.

“The CFDT will be neither in activism, nor in “punch” actions, nor in sending the workers into the wall by making them believe that the President of the Republic who promulgated this law withdraws it”, specifies however Laurent Berger.

More than 4 million euros were collected from an inter-union strike fund

New record broken. After crossing the three million euro mark at the end of Marchthe amount of the main kitty launched to support people on strike against the pension reform reached this weekend 4,022,338.03 euros, found BFMTV.

This sum represents more than half of the donations made to this solidarity fund since its opening in 2016 by union activists from Info’Com-CGT and Sud Postes 92.

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Welcome to this direct dedicated to monitoring the political news of this Monday, May 1, 2023.

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