Opponents of French President Emmanuel Macron’s plan to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64 staged a new round of protests Saturday to push the government to withdraw the unpopular plan.
The nationwide marches, the second round of protests in four days and the seventh since January, were bolstered by ongoing strikes in key sectors, from energy to transport and garbage workers.in several cities, notably Paris, charging, tackling and pepper-spraying intruders dressed in black who set fires to piles of trash along the march route and destroyed bus stops, a street lamp and other urban equipment.
Geraldine Carbonell, a 47-year-old public housing employee, said it was wrong to make everyone work until age 64.AFP via Getty ImagesThis is the second round of protests in just four days.“We are not all equal in as far as the jobs we are doing are concerned,” she said. “Sixty-four years whether you’re a worker or an executive, is not the same.”
On Friday, the government asked for a special procedure to speed up the process by scheduling a single vote on the entire bill, rather than separate votes on each article and hundreds of amendments.French police said 30 people were detained.The head of the CGT labor union is calling for a referendum on the pension reform plan.If the bill is approved by the conservative-controlled Senate, as expected, it would continue next week on its way through France’s complex legislative process.
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