“If the Constitutional Council validates the reform (Friday), we continue the fight. » On the sodden cobblestones of the Place de l’Opéra, David announces the color. On the eve of the long-awaited decision of the « Sages » on the pension reform, this 39-year-old occupational therapist warns that a favorable outcome for the government would in no way prevent him from taking to the streets again. Quite the contrary. ” Because there is the pension reform, but also all the salary issues, salary increases, employment “, he lists during this twelfth day of strike, when the question of the extension of the social movement arises.
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Like him, thousands of people – 40,000 according to the prefecture, ten times more according to the CGT – answered the call of the inter-union to parade in the streets of Paris, Thursday, April 13. Figures significantly lower than the previous week, like the whole territory. But not enough to disarm, claim the protesters who honored this new meeting in the capital.
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“We are here and we will not move until there is a withdrawal from the reform”, launches Hortense, editor in a research institute. Behind her imposing sign, the 25-year-old young woman declares:
“Democracy means continuing to express yourself, even if we see that it is more and more complicated, even if we see that police repression is getting tougher. »
“We say no, loud and clear”
Stéphanie, who works as a freelance in real estate, also expresses her desire to maintain pressure on the government, she who has become accustomed to demonstrating since the movement of “yellow vests”. And what does it matter if, tomorrow, the Constitutional Council validates all or part of the reform wanted by Emmanuel Macron. “I have been on the street for 4 years and I will not leave”announces the fifties with a big smile.
“I have my bike, my sign, and we say no, loud and clear! »
But what can the sequel look like? Evelyne, a retired economist, hopes for new demonstrations, but also for a diversification of “forms of action” : « rallies, torchlight retreats, strikes that can continue, blockages… “Operations destined to increase, anticipates this member of the Attac association, if the Constitutional Council also opposes the “RIP” (Referendum of shared initiative) requested by 252 parliamentarians hostile to the pension reform.
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“This is not the last day of mobilization”
A determination that finds an echo on the side of the CGT. Sophie Binet, the general secretary of the organization, also intends to extend the social dynamic: “This is not the last day of mobilization, we will see each other again a lot”, she claimedthis Thursday morning, alongside striking employees of the Ivry-sur-Seine incinerator.
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His CFDT counterpart, Laurent Berger, held more nuanced words concerning the continuation of the mobilization in its current form, considering that “It is clear that the CFDT will not demonstrate for six months on this pension reform”. More ” the union fight is far from over “, he argued in the procession. ” We will continue to say, to affirm in different forms, no doubt, our opposition to this pension reform. “And the leader of the reformist union already wishes to make May Day “ a great popular day of labor day ».
