PARIS, Mar 28 A nationwide strike against the pension reform already adopted by the government began in Paris at the call of trade unions, several tens of thousands of people are participating in it, a correspondent reports.
The demonstrators chant the slogans «Don't touch our pensions», «Macron, go away».
This is the tenth day since mid-January that France's leading trade unions have declared the day of a nationwide strike against raising the retirement age in the country. People continue to take to the streets, believing that the government imposed the reform by force, despite the disapproval of the population and the lack of support from MPs.
«We will continue until the pension reform is canceled. Macron is on the verge of a breakdown, this seen in the cancellation of the visit of the King of England. Darmanin is raising the level of violence by giving orders to poison everyone with gas and throw grenades into the crowd,» said Aurelien Le Coq, youth leader of Jean-Luc Mélenchon's Defiant France party.
The column of demonstrators started from the Republic Square, and the procession should end on the Nation Square.
French Prime Minister Elisabeth Born on March 16 took advantage of article 49.3 of the constitution to pass a bill to raise the country's retirement age from 62 to 64 without a vote in parliament. Previously, this initiative has already caused a strong wave of protests, most of them gathered more than a million participants across the country. The demonstrations were accompanied by clashes between demonstrators and the police, pogroms and riots.