France's Macron faces nationwide protests on Labour Day as he struggles to turn the page on a deeply unpopular increase in the retirement age
French President Emmanuel Macron has faced nationwide protests on Labour Day as he struggles to turn the page on a deeply unpopular increase in the retirement age that has unleashed a wave of social unrest."This May 1st will be a milestone," said Sophie Binet, leader of the CGT union."It will serve to say that we will not move on until this reform is withdrawn."
The move crystallised anger against a president perceived by many as indifferent to their daily hardships. Macron has been met by boos, pot banging and heckles as he confronts citizens on walkabouts. Macron says the reform is needed to keep one of the industrialised world's most generous pension systems in the black.French pension payments as a share of pre-retirement earnings are comfortably higher than elsewhere and a French citizen typically spends longer in retirement than those in other OECD nations.Macron's government, which lacks a working majority in parliament, rammed the pension legislation through without a final vote due to a lack of cross-party support.
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