Wednesday, March 15, was the eighth day of national mobilization against the pension reform. 480,000 people marched through the streets of France according to the Ministry of the Interior, 1.7 million if we believe the CGT.
No new demonstration of magnitude this Thursday when it is a decisive day for the text that will go through the Senate and then the National Assembly after having been approved yesterday by the Mixed Mixed Commission. The unions also plan to meet in front of the Chamber at noon. Renewable strikes continue in some sectors such as transportation and garbage collection.
Protesters are less likely to hit the pavement
480,000 demonstrators therefore. It is better than March 11 but worse than March 7, which was “historic” according to the unions with 1.28 million people on the streets according to police figures.
It is also the second great day of the social movement that has mobilized the least since mid-January.
Should this be seen as abandonment? The unions, always united and always against the reform, reject this hypothesis.
The French support the mobilization
If the drop in figures could contradict the words of Frédéric Souillot, anger is not measured only by the number of people who demonstrate if we believe the polls.
A new study by Elabe published on March 15 shows that 6 out of 10 French people want the mobilization to continue even if the text is voted on.
The decrease in the legal retirement age from 62 to 64 continues to be widely questioned by the population, with 68% of French against it, 2 points less than in the last survey, but percentages still stable.
However, they seem without illusions since 74% of them believe that the reform will pass.
Source: BFM TV
