Rivers have filled its streets and squares in the morning as trade unions have declared a general strike against the country’s outpost prime minister and hoping that the new prime minister and elected president will not return to the table.
In progress the great course of trade unions in Paris
With the central march in the French capital being ongoing, and without virtually massively serious incidents- at least for the time being- representatives of the trade unions and opposition leaders- with the leader of the French left, and the unprofitable France (LFI). According to CGT trade union leader Sophie Bine, before the central protest march in Paris “more than 400,000 people” had already taken to the streets.
In the marches, from Morlai to Toulouzi, from Paris to Besansson, the placards and slogans were turned against the French president, the new Prime Minister Sebastian Lekorni, but also against his employers and owners of large companies such as his large companies. LVMH.
“Macron outside” and “there is money in the bosses”, are just some of the slogans shouting by protesters in Paris at intervals, according to French media.
In Nadis, local authorities estimated that 10,000 people were involved in the mobilizations, compared to the 5,000 who participated in the mobilization of Bloquons Tout last week. In Marseille, the march was also longer than on September 10, with more than 13,000 protesters, according to police, and 120,000 people, according to trade unions.
Strike against austerity measures, without riots at present but with arrests
The strike has been declared by the CFDT, CGT, FO, CFE-CGC, CFTC, UNSA, FSU and Solidaires’ unions, and have also called with other stakeholders in demonstrations against “brutal” fiscal measures announced this summer. In addition to the withdrawal of the budgetary plans of the Bairo government, trade unions are calling for more public service costs, higher taxes for rich and abandonment of a retirement reform to increase retirement age limits.
“The workers we represent are outraged,” the country’s unions said in a joint resolution in which the “brutal” and “unjust” budget plans of the previous government were rejected.
Today’s mobilizations are, according to estimates, all the biggest than 2023 and the demonstrations for the insurance bill passed by Emmanuel Macron without parliament to increase the retirement age limits of 64 years.
The interior ministry said in its afternoon information, said that 141 arrests were made in the morning, including 21 in Paris. The interior ministry has lowered more than 80,000 police officers and gendarmes on the streets, while protesters were expected to reach about 900,000 people.
