1.12 million people -including 80,000 in Paris- demonstrated this Thursday, January 19 in France against the government’s pension reform, announces the Ministry of the Interior. For its part, the CGT, one of the main unions opposed to the text, announces more than 2 million protesters throughout France.
On December 17, 2019, during the last major demonstration against the previous pension reform project that provided for the transition to the points system, there were 615,000 who hit the pavement according to the public authorities compared to 1.8 million according to the organizers. This protest movement had started a few days earlier, on December 5, 2019, and had already gathered 806,000 protesters according to the police against 1.5 million according to the organizers.
2010, record year
During the previous pension reform, the one carried out by the then Minister of Labor Éric Woerth, there were 1.23 million who demonstrated on October 12, 2010 in the streets of France according to the Ministry of the Interior against almost three times more (3.5 million) according to the unions.
Seven years earlier, on May 13, 2003, there were 1.13 million who opposed the Fillon reform according to public authorities. This is almost twice less than the 2 million protesters announced by the organizers.
The only pension reform that was finally abandoned: the one defended by Alain Juppé, then Prime Minister, in 1995. There was also a large mobilization on December 12, 1995 with 1 million demonstrators according to the public authorities against 2.2 million of protesters according to the organization.
Source: BFM TV
