May Day demonstrations in France were marked by widespread protests against an unpopular pension overhaul that President Emmanuel Macron pushed through last month. Tens of thousands of French workers took to the streets from Le Havre in the north to Marseille in the south, with the protest set to culminate in the afternoon with a march in Paris. The police expected about half a million protesters to rally across the country against the government’s decision to raise the legal age of retirement to 64 from 62, an effort that led to the biggest political threat in Mr. Macron’s second term. Laurent Berger, the leader of the French Democratic Confederation of Labor, the largest union in the country, presented the marches as a way to continue the fight against the pension overhaul. “I don’t accept the 64 years,” he said on Sunday. “I will never accept them.”
Mr. Berger’s…
2023-05-01 06:31:46
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