David Montagné, edited by Romain Rouillard 06:21, March 08, 2023

Affectionately mocked around the world for their propensity to easily take to the streets, the French are not at their first attempt with this mobilization against pension reform.

For 40 years, major demonstrations have marked French political life and have sometimes made governments bend.

With 1.28 million demonstrators, according to the Ministry of the Interior, the mobilization against the pension reform on Tuesday was massively followed in France.

In France, this project is far from being the first to have brought opponents to the streets.

Over the past 40 years, the French have regularly gathered to pound the pavement in order to bend the public authorities.

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In 2010, pension reform was already at the heart of the news and more than 1.2 million people took to the streets to make their opposition heard.

At the time, it was a question of postponing the legal age to 62 years.

Despite the strong mobilization, the law carried by Éric Woerth, Minister of Labor in the Fillon government, had ended up being adopted.

Fifteen years earlier, in 1995, a million French people protested against Alain Juppé's plan, still on pensions but also on social security.

After three weeks of blockage, the government had been forced to give in.

850,000 people to defend the free school in 1984

In 2006, it was the youth who massively took to the streets to protest against the CPE, the first employment contract imagined by Dominique de Villepin, then Prime Minister of Jacques Chirac.

The executive wanted to draw up a type of permanent contract for young people under the age of 26.

Despite the million demonstrators opposed to the measure, the text was finally adopted.

The law is also promulgated but will never be applied.

Finally, in 1984, 850,000 French marched to defend the free school.

An institution that Alain Savary, Minister of François Mitterrand, wanted to tackle, who will finally give up this reform.