Demonstrations are planned throughout France on Thursday January 27 to demand wage increases, while purchasing power is one of the themes of this presidential campaign. Update on the demonstrations at 1 p.m. with the France Bleu network:
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes:
Several hundred people take part in the interprofessional demonstration in favor of purchasing power in Clermont-Ferrand (Puy-de-Dôme). The procession set off in the middle of the morning towards the Place des Carmes.
Brittany :
The organizers of the event in Saint-Brieuc (Côtes-d’Armor) announce a thousand people in the procession, departing from the Promenades park. Among the slogans we can read: “To change the relationship of forces, it is the offensive of all the workers that must be prepared!”
Hauts-de-France:
Nearly 400 demonstrators took to the streets in Valenciennes (North) to defend wages this Thursday morning at Place D’armes. Calls for a strike have also been launched in the factories of Valenciennes.
Great East:
About 400 people mobilized in Reims to defend their purchasing power in Reims (Marne). Between 200 to 300 people demonstrated in Epinal (Vosges) to denounce the low wages, behind this slogan “No to social regression”. More than 200 demonstrators demand an increase in wages, Smic and pensions in Belfort (Territoire de Belfort). Another rally is scheduled for 2 p.m. in Montbéliard.
Normandy:
Many sectors are represented in Cherbourg (Manche) at the demonstration for purchasing power, including teachers, health personnel, retirees, workers and employees. The procession is made up of several hundred people from Place Napoléon to the city centre. Among the slogans, we can see on the placards: “Increase our salaries, increase our pensions” or “Macron, give us back the dough.” Slogans chanted by the demonstrators who denounce a drop in their purchasing power.
New Aquitaine:
About 200 demonstrators are gathered in front of the prefecture in Guéret, in Creuse. The demonstrators wave union flags at the call of the interprofessional mobilization. Interviewed by France Bleu Creuse, 21-year-old Valentin, student and future social worker, who came to defend his future job: “We are anxious for the future, what we are offered is a minimum wage at 1,200 euros, that’s not enough. not to live!”
Between 1,000 and 1,500 demonstrators beat the pavement in Limoges (Haute-Vienne) to defend jobs and wages “who sows misery reaps anger”, “Blanquer in Ibiza, the students to the convict”, “no to social selection in our places of study”, can we read on the signs.
Several hundred people demonstrate in the city center of Périgueux, in the Dordogne.
PACA:
In Nice, in the Alpes-Maritimes, more than a thousand demonstrators answered the call of many unions. The demonstrators take the Promenade des Anglais.