Between 400,000 and 600,000 people plan to participate in rallies tomorrow, Thursday, throughout France, for the twelfth day of large-scale demonstrations and protests in the country at the call of the trade union against the pension reform law, which sparked a great wave of anger during the last period.

edit | Tony Wilde
World News CJ Dept
April 12, 2023

  This is a new day of demonstrations that comes on the eve of the issuance of the French Constitutional Council's decision, Friday, April 14, regarding the constitutionality of the very unpopular project. The Constitutional Council can repeal or ratify the law in whole or in part.

It is expected that since the early morning, about 270 marches will take place in several French cities to protest against this government project, while the Parisian marches will start at two in the evening (Paris time) and it is expected that between 40 and 70 thousand people will participate in them, according to intelligence information.

Despite the trade unions' call to attend in large numbers, tomorrow's demonstrations are expected to witness a decline in the number of demonstrators, and even the wave of protest is expected to recede, especially since there is currently a period of school holidays in some regions of the country, and also after the number of demonstrators decreased sharply in The last day of the demonstrations (6th of April), which witnessed sporadic acts of violence. About 570,000 French people demonstrated across the country, compared to 740,000 during the previous mobilization day on March 28, according to the authorities. The unions estimated their number at "about two million".

In Paris, the police estimated the number of demonstrators at 57,000, compared to 93,000 a week earlier. The unions counted their number at 400,000 in the streets of the capital, compared to 450,000 demonstrators on March 28.

Last Thursday's demonstrations came the day after the meeting between labor union representatives and the Prime Minister, which failed because the two parties adhered to their position, as the unions demanded not to raise the retirement age to 64 years, but rather to withdraw the law itself, while the Prime Minister refused to withdraw the law, stressing its necessity.

Since the bill was passed without a parliamentary vote, on March 16, when the government activated Article 49.3 of the constitution, the state of tension and violence increased, and numerous riots and clashes took place between policemen and demonstrators.

The French, especially those who participated in the demonstrations rejecting the law, are now awaiting the opinion of the Constitutional Council, which will issue its decision in this regard on Friday. While the unions hope that the Constitutional Council will challenge the legitimacy of the retirement law and ask the government to draft a new law or change a number of its articles, the government is waiting for the government to approve most of the articles included in the law, especially Article 7, which provides for raising the retirement age to 64 years. But pending the release of the Nine Elders, here's some information about this institution.

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