1.28 mn people protest against France pension reform: ministry
An estimated 1.28 million people demonstrated nation-wide on Tuesday against French President Emmanuel Macron's plans to push back the retirement age to 64, the interior ministry said.
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- Published Date: 10:06 | 07 March 2023
- Modified Date: 10:09 | 07 March 2023
The figure suggests the demonstrations were some of the biggest in decades, slightly higher than the 1.27 million estimated during a previous round of protests against the reform on January 31.
The hard-left CGT union put the number of protesters at 3.5 million.