Leaders of the main unions said on Tuesday that they expected “more than 2 million” protesters for their sixth day of mobilization against the pension reform, which they say marks the beginning of a “new stage” of the social movement.
The Secretary General of Force Ouvrière affirmed that “in many places France is paralyzed”, following the motto of the intersindicale, which “demonstrates that the strategy works” and therefore justifies continuing “until the withdrawal of this reform”.
Opinion shared by Laurent Berger: “We must not resign ourselves, it is possible to make the government go back in 64 years”, launched in LCI the head of the CFDT, who also hopes to break the record of January 31 (1.27 million participants according to the authorities, 2.5 million according to the organizers). “There will be more people, I tell you,” he assured, warning that “the vast majority of employees will be called to new initiatives” if the executive does not return to his project.
“We are one step above”
“The responsibility lies solely with the government”, which “causes the social movement”, insisted on France Info the leader of the CGT, Philippe Martinez, for whom this sixth act is “the first day of a new stage”, with “extendable strikes from today”. “We are one step above” previous mobilizations, but “no one can say that we had not warned,” he stressed, without taking up the words of his chemical federation, which he called to “bring the economy to its knees.”
An objective, however, assumed in half a word by the president of the CFE-CGC, François Hommeril, who wished in the Public Senate “that it be a significant day, even in its economic impact.”
Source: BFM TV
