Garbage piles up on French streets as protests, strikes continue over Macron’s pension age raise

Refinery strikes persisted in France on Saturday and more demonstrations were taking place throughout the country amid anger at the government pushing through a rise in the state pension age withou…

, combined with rubbish piling up on the streets of Paris after refuse workers joined in the action, has left President Emmanuel Macron with the gravest challenge to his authority since the so-called “Gilets Jaunes” protests of December 2018.

French citizens are furious at President Emmanuel Macron raising the pension age without parliament’s involvement.AP “There is no place for violence. One must respect parliamentary democracy,” Digital Transition and Telecommunications Minister Jean-Noel Barrot told Sud radio.

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