Pensions: several thousand demonstrators in Marseille to keep the flame of protest alive

Nina Pavan, with AFP 09:29, 07 May 2023

In Marseille, the mobilization against the pension reform continued this Saturday. Several thousand people demonstrated in the streets of the Phocaean city in the presence of the leader of the rebellious France Jean-Luc Mélenchon during a "march of anger" because, from pensions to climate, "everything is linked" for them. Less than a week after the May 1 mobilization, several unions and left-wing parties called for this new rally to demand to "live, work and age with dignity", as indicated by the banner at the head.

"The people stay, the presidents pass"

"Enough is enough" for Eve, who considers that this pension reform exacerbates the anger of the people. "It triggered all the demands, the awareness of injustices, the widening of inequalities, the authoritarian way of governance," she told Europe 1. "The people stay, the presidents pass, anyway. But all this clumps together to make tantrums."

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Jean-Marie comes to every demonstration and as long as the reform is not withdrawn, he will continue. "Continue to have actions, to make demonstrations. We go to the end, until the moment when he takes away his reform," he said. "And when you see Macron addressing the people, he forgets that there are parliamentarians, he forgets that there are mayors, he ignores all that, so it's really authoritarian governance."

While waiting for the inter-union day of June 6, in the procession, we already promise other actions to keep the flame of protest alive.