Workers across France strike over budget cut plans

After calling for a one -day protest against unions’ budget cuts, hundreds of thousands of workers are expected to participate in a strike in France on Thursday.

The Ministry of the Interior added that 600,000 to 900,000 people can participate in demonstrations and this will deploy 80,000 police officers throughout the country.

Frices were reported in the cities of Lyon and Nantes, where the police used tear gas to distribute protesters.

The strikes come a week after the appointment of Sébastien Lecornu, a close ally of President Emmanuel Macron. Overthrow of the François Bayrou government.

Public transport was intensively broken on Thursday morning, many subway lines in Paris were closed, while protesters blocked the roads and streets in big cities in France.

The students gathered in front of schools and universities and beyond the capital, blocking entrances and chanting slogans. About one -third of the teachers went out.

Pharmacists also continue to take action in deportations and 98% of pharmacies are expected to remain closed.

The French media said that more than 110 people were detained in France in the afternoon.

Trade unions called for more expenditure to public services, higher taxes and short -lived Bayrou government’s summarized budget cuts.

Cyrielle, a 36 -year -old IT worker, said to the BBC that he was striking because “Macron’s economic and social policies do not fit me, and Bayrou had no budget.” In the center of Paris, tightly polyclinic participated in a large show.

Orum I want to invest more resources in public services and culture. Perhaps one percentage of people with tremendously can contribute a little more, dedi the new government said.

Sophie Binet, the leader of one of France’s major union groups, said: “We need to be in force, we continue to fight in this way … To force the government and employers to end the richest policies that serve the richest.”

Outgoing Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau, “the slightest shift would be,” he said that he gave the police instructions to make arrests, “We will be unattractive and relentless,” he warned.

Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the leader of the radical left party France (LFI), asked the participants to be “disciplined” from the strike.

“Any action of violence serves only one person – Mr. Retailleau,” he said.

Before the protests, the Paris prosecutor Laurent Nunez called on the demonstrations by remote groups to “come out of the rail” and the shops in the city center to close throughout the day.

Strikes on Thursday come after the participation of approximately 200,000 people in the protests organized by the Grassroots Bloquons Tout (Blocket) Movement last week, It caused some deterioration in France.

Bayrou’s non -popular budget proposal – aiming to reduce France’s high public debt with deductions of € 44 billion (£ 38 billion) – led to the loss of confidence in the National Assembly when the parties in the political spectrum united to gather it.

The new Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu, who has not yet established a ministerial team, did not abandon the cuts completely and had negotiations with the opposition parties to reach a compromise from the budget.

Lecornu’s position is dangerous. It faces a parliamentary parliamentary parliament, which is divided into three blocks of deeply different political tendencies, such as the two predecessors Bayrou and Michel Barnier, which makes it difficult to create a budget for the majority of MPs.

However, France is looking at the barrel of increasing public debt, which is equivalent to almost € 50,000 per French citizen.

Barnier and Bayrou were also reduced as a result of the recommended budgets requiring significant interruptions – politicians on the left called for tax increases.

Marianne Baisnée’s additional reports in Paris