Pension reform: towards a very weak mobilization this Tuesday?

Mobilization against the pension reform: episode 14. At least 250 rallies, which can bring together up to 600,000 people according to the authorities, are planned today throughout France to protest against the pension reform carried by the executive. These demonstrations come two days before the examination by the National Assembly of a bill by the LIOT group (Freedoms, Independents, Overseas and Territories) to repeal the government's text, and in particular the raising of the legal age of departure to 64 years. The unions hope to achieve "a great day of strike and demonstrations", according to Marylise Léon, future number one of the CFDT while the law was promulgated in mid-April and the first decrees of application have been published in the Official Journal.

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At 12 noon, 32,465 demonstrators had already marched, according to the FigData survey based on figures from the prefectures, down sharply from the last mobilization on May 1 when 104,130 people had hit the pavement at the same time. In total, they were 782,000 that day for the Ministry of the Interior – against 2.3 million according to the union account.

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At the height of this movement, 1.28 million people had massed in the streets on March 7, including 81,000 in Paris. The challenge was then revived by the use of article 49.3 allowing the majority not to vote on the text in the National Assembly. An IFOP poll for the JDD published on Sunday shows that the anger has not completely faded: 57% of French people still say they support the strikers.

In transport, only the air sector seems to be affected: one flight in three has been cancelled at Paris-Orly, one flight in five in Lyon, Marseille, Nice, Toulouse, Bordeaux or Nantes. SNCF traffic is "very slightly" disrupted "with nine out of ten trains in circulation on national average", and it is "normal" in Île-de-France on the entire RATP network. A strike call has also been launched by the national education unions and youth organizations.