The government says it is “attentive” for this new day of mobilization, but “not worried”

Before the general policy speech and the Prime Minister’s latest arbitrations, the inter -union convened a new strike day and demonstrations on Thursday, to try to win measures of “social justice”, but the mobilization promises to be less important than on September 18.

New day of mobilization in the street, at the call of the inter -union. A few days before the general policy speech and the Prime Minister’s latest arbitrations, the inter -union summons a new day of strikes and demonstrations Thursday October 2, to try to win measures from “Social justice“, but mobilization looks less important than September 18.

Nearly 250 processions are scheduled for Thursday throughout the country and 300,000 to 350,000 people – including 20,000 to 40,000 in Paris – are expected, according to the authorities. A decreased participation compared to the day of September 18 which had brought together from 500,000 to more than a million people, according to the authorities or the CGT.

The inter -union, disappointed after meeting the new Prime Minister, who still has no government and is looking for a compromise to have his budget adopted, launched and maintained his mobilization day believing that he still had no answers to his questions. It requires the abandonment of several measures including “Doubling medical deductibles, the white year (…), the abolition of 3,000 civil servants and the unemployment insurance reform“, as well as”Departure of the legal starting age“At 64.

It is already the 3rd day of mobilization for Sébastien Lecornu, still alone on the front line. For this new mobilization, Matignon intends to show itself “attentive“, more “not particularly worried“.”It looks like a fairly classic mobilization day“, estimates a ministerial advisor, with”probably a little fewer people than the 18th“.

From a security point of view, the demonstrations will be closely monitored: around 75,000 police officers and gendarmes deployed throughout the country, but there will be no interministerial crisis cell, unlike the last two days of protest.

The Prime Minister made sure to address unions upstream: he sent a letter, in which he promises to legislate on the pensions of mothers and to work on arduousness. “”I am attached to social dialogue “ he writes, as a guarantee of his good faith. Sébastien Lecornu will again invite trade union organizations in the coming days. One of his loved ones puts the severity of this mobilization day into perspective: “Unions also make politics, they must respond to the radicalization of their base“.

Political messages that Emmanuel Macron is also trying to launch. The head of state, traveling to Denmark for the summit of the European political community, gave an interview to the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung,, Bringing, without saying it so explicitly, his total support for Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu.

The Élysée tries to lower the pressure: “Tax debates are legitimate“, Admits the head of state, when his Prime Minister is preparing to receive the leaders of the Socialist Party and seems obliged to let go of the ballast, before his declaration of general policy.”If the center block, from the moderate left to the moderate right, wants to advance the country, you have to agree“, Recalls the president, who praises the German example, for”Train coalitions, negotiate …“.

Emmanuel Macron also says he is convinced that the social system is “more expensive“,”more complex administration“And that there is also”More officials per capita“In France … which does not prevent him from defending his economic assessment, despite the political crisis:”France is a solid country“, calling for distrust, as for the declarations of former Prime Minister François Bayrou, for whom, she is at”abyss“.