at least half a million protesters entered the streets of cities throughout France in protest plans for raising the retirement age, BBC reports.
This is the second mass strike in a month. On January 19, 1.1 million people took to protest against raising the retirement age in France – the most massive demonstration from the time of the pension reform of the sarcose in 2010, when the retirement age was raised from 60 to 62 years.
President Emmanuel Macron offers to raise the Pension Forum for another two years – from 62 to 64 years old. Otherwise, according to government calculations, the Pension Fund will not be able to contain a growing number of pensioners in the country.
Eight large trade unions announced strikes throughout the country – about half of primary school teachers and kindergartens, approximately 75% of workers of oil refineries, energy operating at thermal and nuclear power plants, as a result of which the production of electricity in France, according to the largest majority The generating company Edf fell by 4.5%.
Public radio officers are also striking – they twist music instead of news.
strikes caused problems with transport: buses, trains and trams in cities from Paris to Nice go with serious interruptions, the movement of high -speed trains inside the country is violated – only every third walks.
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Air France said that every tenth flight at short and medium distances will be canceled, assuring, however, that this will not affect long -distance flights.
The work of the Paris metro is also violated, it is reported that only two lines served by automatic trains without driver work normally, and there are large crowds of people trying to leave.
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Polls show that up to two -thirds of voters opposed the pension reform of Macron.