Teachers, doctors, railway workers and other public sector employees marched peacefully through cities across France to demonstrate against President Emmanuel Macron's pension reform plans
PARIS - Strikes against pension reforms shut schools and caused transport chaos around France on Tuesday, but the number of people taking to the streets dropped by more than half from last week, strengthening President Emmanuel Macron’s hand.
“Given the depth of discontent, there is a need to get more people on the streets,” Philippe Martinez, head of the hardline CGT union, told reporters before leading a march in Paris. The CGT said it had tallied 885,000 people in France on Tuesday, 180,000 of them in Paris, compared with 1.5 million nationwide and 250,000 in Paris on Dec. 5.
“What’s at stake goes much beyond simply overhauling the pension system,” said Christopher Dembik, an economist with Saxo Bank in Paris. “For Emmanuel Macron, it’s about ... reasserting his ability to reform the country.” “A universal, points-based pay-as-you-go system will be better than the multitude of systems we have now,” he said.
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