Demonstration against pension reform, in Rennes in western France, May 23, 2023 (AFP / JEAN-FRANCOIS MONIER)
Some 750 people according to the prefecture, 3,000 according to the unions, marched on Tuesday without incident in Rennes against the pension reform to “send a message of combativeness” to Emmanuel Macron and the government of Elisabeth Borne before the national call to demonstrate the June 6.
“It’s not at the Elysée Palace, it’s not in the salons that we will obtain satisfaction. It’s through the strike, it’s through action”, chanted the young demonstrators, pointing outstretched fingers in direction of a law enforcement drone flying overhead.
Leaving from Place de Bretagne, the trade union procession, preceded by a hundred young people and high school students, set off around 11:30 a.m., behind a banner calling for people to say “No to the Macron reform”.
The Rennes demonstration, organized at the call of all the trade union organizations of Ille-et-Vilaine (CGT, FO, CFDT, CFTC, Solidaires, Sud, CGC) was one of the few planned for this Tuesday in a metropolis.
“Mr. Prefect, you are not a drone at all”, “money for pensions, not for drones” or “no withdrawal, no peace”, proclaimed a CGT activist over a megaphone. .
“Neither fooled, nor bounded” or “Macron your country is not going well”, could we read on the placards of demonstrators.
“It’s a double message vis-à-vis our activists. After a historic May 1st (which brought together in Rennes between 8,000 and 24,000 people, editor’s note), it is a message of combativeness, vis-à-vis our union apparatuses and the government of Ms. Borne which today invites us to discuss various subjects”, explained to AFP Fabrice Lerestif, secretary of the Force Ouvrière union in Ille-et-Vilaine.
“We don’t want to make the Gallic village. We don’t want to teach the other union federations a lesson either. But we want to show that it’s important to give a message of combativeness. We don’t give up,” added Mr. The restive.
Demonstration against pension reform, in Rennes in western France, May 23, 2023 (AFP / JEAN-FRANCOIS MONIER)
The 14th national day of mobilization against the pension reform is scheduled for June 6, before the examination of the bill brought by the independent parliamentary group Liot aimed at repealing the pension reform.
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