One hundred detainees in France on another night of protests against pension reform

Again, This number is lower than the previous days.. On Thursday night, hours after the reform was approved, there were more than 200 people across the country.

This new type of protest, organized outside of parties and trade unions, is more volatile and unpredictable. The number of mobilizations this Sunday is currently unknown.

Paris has 81 detainees at the end of a demonstration in the Place d’Italie, which was chosen to replace the Place de la Concorde, where the authorities had banned any protest due to the riots of the previous nights. They were joined by dozens of people arrested in the Plaza de la Concordia.

At the end of the march where slogans were shouted against Macron’s “authoritarianism”, burning containers and building barricades. Police responded with tear gas to bullets fired into the air by some demonstrators.

It is estimated that at least 4,000 attendees gathered at the Place d’Italie.

17 people arrested in Lyon In a small protest of 400 to 500 people.

Meanwhile, pension reform further depopulated French President Emmanuel Macron in March, and currently only 28% of French approve of his rule; this is the lowest level of authority comparable to the “Yellow Vests” crisis. It’s the popular uprising that tied him up in 2018.

The manager shows no signs of backing down. His number two minister, Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire, assured in an interview at Le Parisien that the reform would “take effect” and warned that no form of violence would be “tolerated” in protests.

The government itself faces two no-confidence motions this Monday presented by a group of centrists and regionalists supported by the left and the far right.

However, both initiatives have little chance of success if the conservative body Los Republicos (LR) manages to maintain the voting discipline it failed to achieve on the 16th, with the Executive in a relative minority. Article 49.3 Due to lack of absolute majority in the Assembly.

Trade union strikes against reform continue. Several refineries were blocked and pauses in garbage collection were felt in Paris.

Despite the fact that the government has mandated the return of some workers for public health reasons, thousands of tons of rubbish still pile up on the sidewalks.

The Paris City Council, which supported the strike and did not cooperate with the government, estimates that the number of waste is fixed at 10,000 tons.