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  • Analysis of 42 special regimes to one: this is the reform of Macron's pensions

The strike against the pension reform promoted by the president of France, Emmanuel Macron, is causing strong disruptions in rail and air transport on Thursday, as well as the closure of schools and various cultural institutions.

The National Railroad Society (SNCF) warns that only one in ten TGV high-speed trains, the outskirts of Paris and the long-distance Intercités , as well as one in five regional trains ( TER ) circulate, while the International traffic is also "very affected."

The controversial pension reform of Macron wants to replace the 42 regimes that currently exist with a system of points in which each euro quoted gives the same rights to reach retirement, and thus contemplates ending the benefits they enjoy workers like those of the SNCF or the Parisian metropolitan transport network.

That is the reason why the follow-up of the strike in both sectors is being massive, while in air transport the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGAC) had already planned the cancellation of 20% of flights with origin or destination in France.

Security deployment to avoid altercations

Throughout the country, 245 demonstrations have been officially convened, but the main one will take place in Paris at 2:00 pm, starting at the Eastern station and ending at the Nation square.

In the Parisian subway, 11 lines have been suspended, three others will work with restrictions and only at peak times, and the two automated ones that guarantee displacements, 1 and 14, could be saturated.

The unions CGT , FO , FSU , Solidaires , UNL and UNEF have called for a strike considering that the new regime will reduce the amount of pensions and "degrade the rights of all". "We are on strike to improve the current system," union leader Philippe Martínez of the CGT said Thursday on the BFMTV network.

The French Secretary of State for Transport, Jean-Baptiste Djebbari , has admitted that "we must be lucid" and foresee that the stoppages can last longer, and stresses that he will meet this Thursday with those groups in search of a quick exit to This crisis

According to a survey by the Odoxa-Dentsu Institute published by the newspaper Le Figaro , seven out of ten French people believe that the protest is justified. The authorities have mobilized some 6,000 police and gendarmes in the capital and 1 80 motorized agents to avoid altercations, and have recommended the closure of shops in the area, in anticipation of violent groups causing clashes with law enforcement. .

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