A bill that crystallizes the opposition. The unions call on the French who oppose the pension reform to take to the streets this Saturday, the fourth day of action against the reform, expecting a record mobilization. Among them, opponents, but also voters of Emmanuel Macron, bearer of this reform.
“Maintaining this pace until the age of 64 is not going to be easy. I work in the green space. The green space at 64 is going to be difficult,” Brian, a resident of Haguenau, on the Lower Rhine, told the BFMTV microphone.
However, this young Alsatian had slipped a ballot paper in the name of the Élysée tenant into the ballot box during the second round of the 2022 presidential elections. “Between Macron and Le Pen, I chose Macron. (…) If we really had to stopping at each idea, we would inevitably not agree with anyone”, he believes.
“Be more attentive”
Many residents of this town in the Lower Rhine region voted in favor of the head of state in the first round of the last presidential elections. Emmanuel Macron won with 31% of the vote. But today, many of these voters disapprove of the reform bill.
“You have to be more attentive to many trades,” said a resident into the BFMTV microphone.
“It is not because we vote for a president that we are forced to agree with everything he says,” says another.
An “unfair” reform for 4 out of 10 Macron voters
This trend is reflected at the national level. 40% of Emmanuel Macron voters find the pension reform unfair, 13 points more in two weeks.
In general, the protest remains high among the population. More than 7 out of 10 French people (72%) declare themselves in favor of continuing the protest movement for the pension reform, according to the latest Elabe poll for BFMTV published on Wednesday.
More than 4 out of 10 French (41% of those surveyed) even want the movement to harden, for example, through blockades or renewable strikes.
Authorities expect between 600,000 and 800,000 people on the streets this Saturday, including 90,000 to 120,000 in Paris.
Source: BFM TV
