Continue to increase the pressure against the executive who does not back down. The unions, the Nupes and the union organizations seek to mobilize widely this Saturday against the pension reform. There is urgency after a less followed day of unemployment last Tuesday.
Despite the falling numbers – 757,000 people demonstrated on Tuesday across France, that is, 500,000 fewer demonstrators than the previous week – the unions firmly believe in a large-scale mobilisation. With an argument: the organization of parades on a weekend, a rarity on the union front.
Bring other profiles
In a context of very high inflation, the possibility of demonstrating without losing a day’s salary could play into the balance, expects the field of opponents of the reform.
With more than 72% of French people saying they are opposed to raising the retirement age to 64 and want the mobilization to continue according to an Elabe poll for BFMTV, the room for improvement seems very significant.
Motivate families to demonstrate
However, the calendar is not obvious in the middle of the holiday departure day for zone B which covers, in particular, Lille or Marseille, two of the cities most mobilized against the lowering of the departure age to 64 years.
Another bet launched by the political world: that of putting families on the streets to consolidate the movement. The relatively good march of the previous days of the mobilization, without major confrontations, could play into the balance. The government has also not stopped in recent days to welcome the security climate of the mobilizations.
convince students
Opponents of the reform also count on the mobilization of students who, until now, have not taken to the streets much. The day of January 21 organized at the initiative of LFI and youth organizations had thus gathered only 150,000 demonstrators according to the organizers and 12,000 according to the police.
If La France Insoumise had at that time provided the participants with rented buses throughout France so that they could come to Paris to demonstrate, this is no longer on the menu to allow the deployment of demonstrations throughout the territory.
To successfully federate the youngest, FAGE, one of the main student associations, is committed to the intensification of trailers on university campuses and the multiplication of conferences to detail the reform. At UNEF, however, they do not hide their skepticism.
Keep in time
If this Saturday may not see the mobilization of the big days, many on the left take into account that it is the sixth day of the strike against the special regimes that had subdued Alain Juppé, the prime minister in 1995. Suffice it to say that the front union mainly aims to anchor the protest in the long term.
More than 4 out of 10 French people even want the movement to harden, in the form of greater mobilization, blockades or even renewable strikes according to the Elabe Institute.
Source: BFM TV
