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People took to the streets of #Paris again to protest against the pension reform. pic.twitter.com/3sZTgG46Ep
— NEXTA (@nexta_tv) May 1, 2023
🚨#BREAKING: Severe clashes in #Paris over pension reform, police hit by firebombs. pic.twitter.com/DkzjgtSCCd
— Breaking News 24/7 (@Worldsource24) May 1, 2023
LIVE NOW: Unions and workers in Paris have turned out to protest on May 1, which marks International Workers’ Day, after French President Emmanuel Macron signed a contested pension reform law https://t.co/90hCY0WDIG
— NowThis (@nowthisnews) May 1, 2023
Democracy isn’t free. You must pay with all of your basic freedoms and your human dignity.
All of your money will be forfeit as well.
But that is nothing in comparison to the need to protect our values.
Workers marched across France in anger at President Emmanuel Macron’s increase in the retirement age on Monday, with police firing tear gas in Paris and the western city of Nantes, as protesters joined Labour Day rallies across Europe.
Macron’s popularity has plunged to near record lows hit during the “Yellow Vest” crisis after he stared down trade unions and multi-sector strikes and lifted the retirement age by two years to 64.
The move crystallised discontent against a president perceived by many as indifferent to their daily hardships and Macron has been met by boos, pot banging and heckles as he confronts citizens on walkabouts.
Sophie Binet, leader of the hardleft CGT union, said the pension reform had left Macron isolated.
“The executive cannot govern without the support of its people,” Binet said ahead of the Paris protest, adding her union had not yet decided on talks with the government on other work-related matters in the weeks ahead.
Laurent Berger, head of the reform-minded CFDT trade union, said Macron’s government had been deaf to the demands of one of the most powerful social movements in decades.
He said his union was open to discussions with the government and dismissed suggestions that a rare alliance between the leading trade unions was being tested now that the pension bill had been signed into law.
“We must bring other proposals over salaries and working conditions to the table,” he told BFM TV.
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Macron says the French reform is needed to keep one of the industrialised world’s most generous pension systems in the black.
French pension payments as a share of pre-retirement earnings are comfortably higher than elsewhere and a French man typically spends longer in retirement than those in other OECD nations.
Trade unions say the money can be found elsewhere.
The issue is: if this ever gets too hot, Macron can just surrender, and be replaced with someone exactly like Macron.
Then the protests stop.
That is the way democracy works.
It neutralizes the population.
