Paris (AP) – Citizens and trade unions took to the streets of European cities on Sunday to march on May 1 and spread protest messages to their governments, particularly in France, where Labor Day as a demonstration. Shout against newly elected president Emmanuel Macron.
May 1 was a time of intense emotion for the participants and their goals, for which the police were ready. Turkish police quickly entered Istanbul and besieged protesters near the banned taxi rank, in which 34 people were killed on May 1, 1977, when people shot from a nearby building.
Police wearing riot gear stormed a demonstration on Sunday, removing 164 protesters in a truck. Located on the Asian side of Istanbul, thousands of people sang, chanted and waved banners at a rally on May Day, a rally organized by the Confederation of Turkish Progressive Trade Unions.
In Italy, after two years of pandemic calm, an open-air mega-concert was held in Rome with rallies and protests in cities across the country. In addition to work, peace is an important issue in the call for an end to the Russian war in Ukraine.
The three main unions of Italian workers are concentrated in the mountain town of Assisi, a frequent site of peaceful protests. This year’s slogan is “Work for Peace”.
“This is May day for social and civil commitment for peace and work”, said Daniela Fumarola, head of the Italian CISL.
Other protests were planned in Europe, including Slovakia and the Czech Republic, where students and others planned to rally in support of Ukraine as Communists, anarchists and anti-EU groups staged of their own demonstrations.
In France, demonstrations on May Day – a week after the presidential elections – aim to show Macron the opposition he can meet for his second five -year term and give power against centrists before the June election. Opposition parties, especially the far left and far right, are trying to overthrow the majority of his government.
Protests were planned across France, focused on Paris, where the Communist -supported CGT union led the main march in East Paris, along with several other unions. Everyone is pushing Macron for a policy that puts people first and condemns his plan to raise the retirement age from 62 to 65.
First, the far -right leader Marine Le Pen was not at the foot of the statue of Joan D. Arc during the laying of her party’s traditional crown, which was replaced by the interim president of her National Rally Party. Le Pen Macron lost the second round of presidential elections last week and intends to campaign to retain his seat as MP.
“I went to tell the French that the polls were not over. “There’s a third round, a legislative election,” Jordan Bardella said, “and it’s unthinkable for Emmanuel Macron to give up full power.”
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Nicole Winfield in Rome and Zeynep Bilginsoy in Istanbul contributed to this report.
Source: Huffpost
