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10 December 2019It is a Tuesday with a decidedly low rate of adhesions to the strike in the teachers' sector, one of the categories involved in the pension reform: 2.41% of elementary school teachers and 19.41% of school teachers abstain from work superior, according to the ministry. Figures that, for the union, are 30% and 62% respectively. Almost all the schools in Paris are open today.

Last Thursday, the first day of the strike, 50% of elementary school teachers and 40% of high school teachers were absent from French institutions.

Only 24.7% of the "cheminots", the French railway workers, went on strike, the tip of the iceberg of the protest against the pension reform, but to paralyze the Parisian railway and metro traffic for the 6th consecutive day is actually the high percentage of drivers who stop, 77.3%: this is the data provided by the SNCF management.

Among the indispensable personnel for the movement of trains, 23.6% of station managers are also on strike. The abstention rates are almost identical to yesterday, as are the trains in circulation: one TGV (high speed) out of 5, three regional out of 10 and one out of 6 for Intercity. As for the Paris metro, 10 lines are completely blocked, others 4 circulate only at peak times. Half the buses and trams are in operation.

The queues on the peripherique, the ring road of Paris, and on the roads of Ile-de-France, arrived yesterday in some moments to touch the total 600 km, are today over 400, twice the normal day.

Philippe Martinez, secretary of the CGT union, admitted in front of the television screens that the participation "remains important but in Paris and also in the province there is less people"

Across France, last Thursday, 1.5 million protesters took to the streets, 800,000 for the police station.

Particularly accentuated war of figures in Marseilles, where according to the CGT there are 150,000 protesters while the police have just 12,000.