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PARIS, March 18 (Reuters) – On Saturday in France Strikes continued at the oil refinery and the government of parliament state without voting pension Amid anger over the age increase, more demonstrations were held across the country.
After garbage workers joined the action, riots escalated with garbage piling up on the streets of Paris the president Emmanuel Macron called “Gilets Jaunes” (Yellow Vests) in December protest after his actions, he faced the most serious problem against his authority. 2018.
About 37% of operational workers at TotalEnergies’ ( TTEF.PA ) refineries and warehouses in areas including Fezine in southeastern France and Normandy in the north went on strike on Saturday, a company spokesman said.
Meanwhile, rolling strikes on the railways continued.
Friday evening in Paris, in the capital’s Place de la Concorde, the Assemblee Nationale parliament 61 people during the demonstration near his building imprisonment was done.
This led the Paris prefecture to ban rallies on Place de la Concorde and the nearby Champs-Elysees on Saturday.
But next on Saturday in the Italian square south of Paris rally had to be held.
France elsewhere in the capital, a group of students and activists of the Revolution Permanente collective briefly occupied the Forum des Halles shopping center, waving banners calling for a general strike and shouting “Paris stand up, stand up”. social videos in media. showed.
BFM television also showed footage of ongoing demonstrations in cities such as Compiegne in the north, Nantes in the west and Marseille in the south.
Digital transition and telecommunications minister Jean-Noel Barrot told Sud radio: “There is no place for violence. Parliament it is necessary to respect democracy”.
France’s main trade union said it would continue to mobilize to force the changes to be reversed. A nationwide day of industrial action is planned for Thursday.
Eight days of nationwide protests and many local industrial actions since mid-January have so far been largely peaceful, but the last three days of unrest 2018At the end of the year, the fuel is high prices which happened in connection with and reminds of these protests. It forced Macron into a partial U-turn on the carbon tax.
Macro overhaul pension raising the age by two years to 64, which the government says is essential to keep the system from collapsing.
Reporting by Dominique Vidalon, Gilles Guillaume and Forrest Crellin; Edited by David Holmes
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2023-03-18 20:17:38
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