France lives today another day of mass protests for pensions

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The French unions are launched again against the pension reform of President Emmanuel Macron. France will live today a new day of strikes in transport and demonstrations , one day before Prime Minister Édouard Philippe presents the details of the reform. The pressure continues in the streets to force Macron to withdraw his reform. The unions are growing after the success of the demonstration last Thursday - 800,000 protesters, according to the government, and a million and a half, according to the General Confederation of Labor (CGT) - and the massive strike in the railways and metropolitan transport of the Last five days

The high commissioner high commission for pension reform, Jean-Paul Delevoye, and the Minister of Health and Social Security, Agnès Buzyn, met yesterday with the social partners. Union leaders are not willing to give their arm to twist. And they trust that the protests force the Macron government to withdraw the project . In 1995, Alain Juppé, Prime Minister of Jacques Chirac, ended up withdrawing his pension reform after three weeks of protests.

The leader of the left-wing La Francia Insumisa party, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, urged the French to protest massively against the reform. «The only way to break the government is to be numerous. The more we are, the more means we will have to intimidate them and push them back. Better some days of hardship than years of misery, ”added the leader of La Francia Insumisa, the equivalent of Podemos in France.

Brussels, on the other hand, not only welcomes the pension reform in France, but considers it "necessary." The European Commissioner for Internal Market, Thierry Breton, is confident that President Macron can carry out his reform. "In Brussels, [Macron] is seen as someone who has begun to reform the country in depth," the European commissioner said in statements to Europe 1 radio.

The French are preparing to live on Tuesday another day of protests and chaos in rail and metropolitan transport. Air France has canceled 25% of domestic flights. It is feared that the stoppages in the SNCF (the French Renfe) and in the Paris metro will last several days . The Secretary of State for Transport, Jean-Baptiste Djebbari, said it is not an "oracle" to predict whether the protests will continue next week. The tourism sector and merchants fear that they will end up paying the consequences of the protests.

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