At 35, Mylène is some distance from retirement. And but on Tuesday, she protested for the primary time in her lifestyles towards the French executive’s plans to boost the retirement age from 62 to 64.
This is the case for lots of younger French other people, who’re coming into the labour marketplace later than their elders. Mylène feels much more deprived as a lady.
“As a woman, we are basically obliged to take maternity leave if we have children,” she advised Euronews’ reporter Cyril Fourneris. “We are obliged to stop our career. When we start again, we don’t work full-time but part-time. This will have an impact on our retirement later on. If this reform passes, we won’t be able to go back. It’s now or never.”
As the Place d’Italie in Paris fills up with protesters, Mylène joins her buddy Benjamin, who says he does not have prime hopes for his pension. But he desires to be heard:
“It am protesting to tell the government that I’m fed up with all these reforms they’re trying to make. For me, they’re trying to break up the whole public service.”
President Emmanuel Macron and his executive declare that this reform is “essential” to “save the French pay-as-you-go system”. An argument that doesn’t persuade the demonstrators.
“The aim is for all this mobilisation to simply put an end to this reform,” Mylène says. “We’re going to have to hold a lot of demonstrations, I think, because they really don’t seem to be listening to us. So it’s going to take time. But I still believe in it.”
The mobilisation of younger other people might be one of the most keys to this protest motion. For the instant it’s tricky to quantify. However, the polls are transparent: the majority of running other people stay hostile to this reform.
