On May 1, another day against the pension reform in France

The French trade unions want to turn their traditional protest day of May 1 into a protest day new mobilization against pension reform which is expected to be huge despite the fact that the law has already been approved and promulgated.

The question with the 300 demonstrations organized across the country, at which the power stations hope to gather hundreds of thousands, perhaps even more than a million people, is what form the protest will take from now on and whether it will succeed. the union unit of the last months.

The Ministry of the Interior has planned a deployment of 12,000 agents across France, including 5,000 in Paris, where the march will take place at 2:00 p.m. in the afternoon Between the Plaza de la República and the Plaza de la Nación.

After the official march of the trade unions, which go hand in hand this year, there are calls on social networks to go to the Plaza de la Ópera at 8 p.m., where riots expected. For the first time, police will use drones in Paris and other major cities to track and record protesters.

Union leaders plan to meet on Tuesday morning to decide how to continue the fight against the French president’s reform. Emmanuel Macronwhich will raise the minimum retirement age from the current 62 to 64.

May 1 goes hand in hand with some strikes that will be particularly noticed at airports air traffic controllers strike forcing the companies operating at the nine largest French airports, including the two in Paris, to cancel between a quarter and a third of flights.