Thousands take to the streets of Paris to protest rising prices – Times of India

Paris: Thousands took to the streets of Paris on Sunday to protest rising prices, as weeks of strikes for higher wages at oil refineries called for a general strike.
radical leftist party leader la france insoumes (France Unbowed), Jean-Lucco melanchonmarched with this year’s Nobel laureate for literature, Annie Arnox, He called for a general strike on Tuesday.
“You’re going to live a week like no other, we’re the ones who started it with this march,” he told the crowd.
Mélenchon followed in the footsteps of four unions – but not France’s biggest, the liberal CFDT – who have called for strikes and protests on Tuesday for wage increases.
After the government ordered some oil refinery workers’ demands, the four unions also called for protests to help protect their right to strike, a move seen by the unions as a violation of their constitutional rights.
March followed up by a call NUPES The parliamentary coalition, which hopes to turn the page on allegations of domestic violence, which has harassed senior members recently.
budget Minister Gabriel Atala stated that the left-wing coalition was attempting to take advantage of the current situation, marked by ongoing attacks on French utilities. EDFnuclear plants and French oil refineries.
“Today’s march is a march of supporters who want to block the country,” he said on French radio station Europe 1.