PARIS, Jan 10 manifestations against the introduction of pension reform, said Tuesday Secretary General of the French Democratic Confederation of Labor (CFDT) Laurent Berger.
French Prime Minister Elisabeth Born on Tuesday presented a draft of the controversial pension reform, which the government plans to adopt in 2023. According to her, the French authorities will begin to raise the retirement age in the country by three months a year from September 1, 2023, thus, by 2030 it will reach 64 years.
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«From January 19, we need to mobilize so that this reform is not adopted so that the government changes its mind… We are all against the pension reform, so we call for mobilization from January 19,» Berger said on BFMTV.
He stressed that this is «one of the most brutal pension reforms in the last 30 years.»
In December, the head of France's leading trade union, the General Confederation of Labor (CGT), Philippe Martinez, said that France would face mass strikes in early 2023 if the government did not change its decision on the adoption of pension reform in the country.
In September 2022, more than 200 demonstrations took place in France against raising the retirement age. More than 250 thousand people took part in them.