In Iparralde, transport and education are the hardest hit sectors. In the state, the information services of the police expect between 1 and 1.2 million demonstrators at the approximately 240 organized demonstrations.
A day after the pension reform of the French President, Emmanuel Macron, will begin his parliamentary process, the second day of general strikeafter the held January 19. The unions hope that the mobilizations will be more numerous on Tuesday, demonstrating the strength of public opinion.
In Ipar Basque Country, the hardest hit sectors were transport and education. According to the organizing unions, about 17,000 people have gathered in Baiona for the demonstration. The police have also acknowledged that they are more numerous than two weeks ago, when all records were broken (they reached the mobilization of some 10,000 people, according to the CGT union). The organizers have received the support of youth associations and pensioners of Hego Euskal Herria.
In the department of Nueva Aquitaine, only one in three high-speed trains run. At Biarritz airport, return flights to Lyon have been suspended and more cancellations are expected, so it is advisable to check the websites of the different companies. In education, 30% of teachers supported the strike in the department.
In the french state, according to the French government, the strike has been particularly noted in the transport and energy sectors. They have also reported that in education, follow-up is between 25 and 30%.
Similarly, the streets of Paris are filled with demonstrators protesting this pension reform.
Police information services leaked this to the media expect between 1 and 1.2 million protesters near 260 gears organized, figures comparable to those of the first mobilization.
In order to try to prevent public order disturbances, the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, has announced that they will deploy 4000 policemen and gendarmes in Paris and 11,000 in all across the state, which means 1,000 more than at the protest on the 19th.
Darmanin, who has warned that “those who attack the police or the demonstrators will be arrested”, has underlined cooperation with union law enforcement and said he hopes the demonstrations will take place “under the same conditions”. on the first day of protest “no significant serious incidents”.
The unions intend with this day of mobilizations to force the government to withdraw its planned reforms postponement of the minimum retirement age from 62 to 64 years Y forward to 2027 the extension to 43 years (currently 42) of the listing period needed to build up a full pension.
The majority of public opinion is against the reform, as all polls repeatedly show, the left parties, the far right and even some conservative deputies from Los Republicanos, the party Macron hopes to count on to pass his bill. .
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Source: EITB
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