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Pension reform: an opinion that oscillates between abnegation and revolt, fatigue and protest

2023-01-12T19:14:21.271Z


DECRYPTION – Thursday will take place the strike against the pension reform and the organizers hope for a mobilization strong enough to make the government back down, as was the case in 1995.


The theater is ready.

Last Tuesday, the program for the show was unveiled by Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne.

Union representatives and leftist parties, intransigent critics, rose up.

And Les Républicains, privileged spectators in the first orchestra seats, coldly welcomed the first act.

Already the curtain is rising: the setting for the second is the street, where this time the audience is most unpredictable.

Next Thursday will take place the strike against the pension reform and the organizers hope for the same scenario: a mobilization strong enough to make the government back down, as was the case in 1995, while two million French people marched against the Juppé plan on pensions and social security.

For three weeks, the country was paralyzed by a massive public transport strike and marked by six demonstrations.

Public opinion followed: it was the famous “proxy strike”, as well as…

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Source: lefigaro

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