SNCF, school, demonstrations… Update on mobilization

►SNCF and RATP traffic with little disruption

SNCF traffic should be “very slightly disturbed” with “nine out of ten trains” on average. Traffic should be “normal” in Île-de-France on the entire RATP network.

The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGAC) has asked airlines to cancel a third of their flights at Paris Orly. One flight in five is also canceled in Lyon, Marseille, Nice, Toulouse, Bordeaux and Nantes.

► Less mobilized strikers

While the unions have called for mobilization in schools, universities and hospitals, they are cautious about the participation of employees in this new day of protest.

“It will not be at the level of the highest mobilizations”, anticipates Céline Verzeletti, CGT confederal secretary. “There will be few strikers”, at least in national education, recognizes Benoît Teste (FSU), referring to an “end of cycle”.

► Many parades

The authorities expect between 400,000 and 600,000 people at 250 assembly points. The mobilization should bring together 40,000 to 70,000 people in Paris. In the capital, the procession will set off at 2 p.m. from the Esplanade des Invalides to Place d’Italie.

Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin announced the deployment of 11,000 police and gendarmes, including 4,000 in Paris, “to ensure the security of demonstrations and guarantee the right to demonstrate”, while around a thousand individuals “at risk”, including “members of the ultra-left from abroad”, are expected in the parades.

► A vote at the Assembly

Thursday, the President of the Assembly Yaël Braun-Pivet should draw article 40 of the Constitution (which prohibits parliamentarians from tabling amendments having the effect of increasing the deficit) to declare inadmissible amendments aimed at restoring the article key to the Liot bill which sets the retirement age at 62.

“If the government invokes Article 40, it will be a pure democratic scandal”, denounced the general secretary of the CGT, Sophie Binet, “very worried about the rise of the far right”.

In a column published Monday in Le Monde, the left and the Liot deputies called on Yaël Braun-Pivet to let the text live, citing the risk of “increasing anger and violence”.

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