The government plans to reduce the budget by reducing government costs by reducing public services, repairing insurance in case of unemployment and frozen social payment.
Nearly half a million people brought the streets of French cities, protesting against government economic and social policy, in particular, seeking to reduce budget and social payments. On Thursday, September 18, French report 24.
According to estimates of the Trade Confederation of Labor (CGT), more than one million participants brought the streets. At the same time, authorities said about 500 thousand protesters. Only in the capital, according to police, the rally gathered nearly 50 thousand people, and thousands more joined the shares in Lyon and Marseille.
Protesters opposed the reduction of government spending, cutting public services, insurance reforms in the event of unemployment and freezing social benefits. Due to the country strikes, the work of state institutions was paralyzed: only a third of teachers arrived at schools, and more than 10% of employees were announced by a strike.
The protests also influenced other areas: the metro movement was limited to Paris, transportation communication was slowed down throughout the country. In addition, electricity is reduced to a level corresponding to the power of four atomic reactors.
In the city of Nantes, police arguments with tears of tears were recorded, and in Lyon they reported the injured to the protesters. In general, law enforcement officials have confined more than 180 people.
The reason for the protests is that the previous government’s decision to reduce the government’s spending of nearly 44 billion euros to reduce debt. After criticizing the trade unions and opposition, the prime minister Francois Bayru resigned, who melted the Ministers’ cabinet.
The new head of government, President Emmanuel Macron, appointed former defense minister Sebastian Lekornny. On September 10, on the day of his climb, the first major protest under the “Block everything” slogan was held in the country.
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