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Macron faces 200 protests across France over pension changes

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"Emmanuel Macron was expected to feel the full force of French anger on Thursday as protesters gathered across the country to demonstrate their opposition to the pension age being raised from 62 to 64. On Thursday, police had been notified of more than 200 protests across France and were gearing up for a massive turnout of hundreds of thousands of people at the main march in Paris. Along the route from Bastille to the opera house, the main east-west axis across the north of the city, shops, banks and businesses were boarded up early in the morning and vanloads of police and gendarmes stationed along roads. Protesters have been galvanised by Macron’s appearance on television on Wednesday in which he said the protests were “legitimate” but would not lead to a U-turn on the controversial law, which not only raises the official retirement age but requires workers to contribute into the pension system for longer. The president was accused of showing “contempt and arrogance” for those opposed to the changes, which were a keystone of his re-election campaign last year." 03/23/23 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/23/workers-block-paris-airport-terminal-pension-protests-continue-france

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